TULSA, Okla — A local non-profit is helping a Bartlesville family navigate life after the diagnosis of a rare genetic disorder. The Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders started right here in ...

Peroxisomal biogenesis disorder, which has been linked only to lipid metabolism, is also associated with sugar metabolism. Meeting a young patient with Zellweger syndrome, a rare, life-threatening ...

Patients with peroxisomal dysfunction disorders lack peroxisomes or certain peroxisomal enzymes. Assay of activity of the peroxisomal membrane enzyme dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyl transferase ...

Meeting a young patient with Zellweger syndrome, a rare, life-threatening genetic disease, started a scientific investigation that culminated with an unexpected discovery. The condition, also known as ...

'Lorenzo's Oil' was to help a seriously ill boy suffering from a peroxisomal disorder (adrenoleukodystrophy/ALD). The true story was turned into a film which made the rare disease well known.