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Low oxygen levels restore balance and coordination in a mouse model of a movement disorder
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Low oxygen levels restore balance and coordination in a mouse model of a movement disorder

by Allessandra DiCorato, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Friedreich’s ataxia is a rare, inherited disease that causes progressive nervous system damage, impairing balance and coordination and leaving patients unable to walk by early adulthood. Now, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that treatment with continuous hypoxia—low-oxygen conditions comparable to levels...