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Bolivia-Mount Chacaltaya 2012

From Bioblast

AltitudeOmics 2012

Rob Roach explains the AltitudeOmics 2012 project, with the two OROBOROS Oxygraph-2k at 5,200 m in one of the labs at Chacaltaya, Bolivia. Dr.a Isabel Moreno (right) belongs to the physics staff of the Chacaltaya laboratory (Jul/Aug 2012).

"If we can figure out how the body responds to hypoxia there are implications for cancer, heart, lung and blood disease. It could have enormous reach." - Robert Roach, Director of the Altitude Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, USA

MitoCom Tyrol participated in the AltitudeOmics 2012 project - scientists were using high-resolution respirometry to study mitochondrial function at 5,240 m in Bolivia, Mt. Chacaltaya.

Β»Chacaltaya GAW Station