Humanized Yeast: Scientists Create Yeast With Important Human Genes
Delft University of Technology scientists have created baker’s yeast with human muscle genes. Human muscle genes were successfully inserted into the DNA of baker’s yeast…
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Scientists Discover How You Can Improve Your Metabolism
Researchers find how skeletal muscle adjusts to high-intensity interval training, including alterations to mechanisms crucial for controlling metabolism and muscular contraction. Research recently published in eLife…
Slim, but Powerful: How To Build Strength Without Bulk
Bodybuilding is a popular form of body modification, especially within the United States. Bulking up and building a body that looks as though it was…
Fixing Shoulder Pain: Harvard Scientists Develop a Method To Restore Damaged Tendons and Muscles
The new complex tissue platform can restore damaged rotator cuffs The typical office worker often has soreness throughout their body as a result of their…
The Surprising Health Benefits of Cold Water Therapy
Can immersing yourself in cold be beneficial to your health? Cold water therapy, or cold immersion, is what it sounds like: immersing yourself in cold…
Higher Blood Fats More Harmful Than Previously Thought – Can Damage Muscle Cells
Increased levels of blood fats in people with type 2 diabetes and obesity are more harmful than previously thought, a new study has found. In…
Gain Muscle Mass and Lose Fat: Can Weekly Prednisone Treat Obesity?
Obese mice gain muscle mass and lose fat with once-weekly prednisone. Daily prednisone promotes obesity, but weekly prednisone has ‘strikingly different’ results Weekly prednisone promotes…
Glucocorticoid Steroids Enhance Muscles Through Sex-Specific Pathways
Glucocorticoid steroids improved muscle performance through distinct, sex-specific molecular mechanisms in mice, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation…
Backward Over Forward: Eccentric Cycling Offers More Benefits and Requires Less Effort
Japanese researcher uses neuromuscular activation to assess the impact of cycling on the rectus femoris muscle. Cycling is a popular fitness activity worldwide. Although the…
10–20% Lower Death Risk From Just 30–60 Minutes of Weekly Muscle-Strengthening Activity
Lower risk of death from all causes and from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, in particular. But no conclusive evidence that more than an hour…
Autonomously Swimming Biohybrid Fish Made From Human Cardiac Cells Reveals Insights Into Heart Physiology
An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish, designed with a focus on two key regulatory features of the human heart, has revealed the importance of feedback mechanisms…
Autonomous Biohybrid Fish – Made From Human Cardiac Cells – Swims Like the Heart Beats
Device offers insights into artificial muscular pumps, a step toward building an artificial heart. Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have…
Remarkable Jurassic Fossil Reveals 165-Million-Year-Old Ammonite Muscles in 3D
Beautifully preserved fossil ammonite collected from 165-million-year-old Jurassic site in Gloucestershire, UK; 3D reconstruction of combined neutron and X-ray images of fossil shows internal muscles…
Muscular Study Reveals How Giant 50-Ton Sauropod Dinosaurs Moved and Evolved
New research led by the University of Bristol has revealed how giant 50-ton sauropod dinosaurs, like Diplodocus, evolved from much smaller ancestors, like the wolf-sized…
Research Shows Supplement Boosts Muscle and Mitochondria Health
A study cohort that received an oral supplement of a gut-produced compound had better endurance in two small exercises. An oral supplement intended to stimulate…
Origin of Rare Bone Growth Disease FOP Rooted in Muscle Regeneration Dysfunction
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare disease characterized by extensive bone growth outside of the normal skeleton that pre-empts the body’s normal responses to…
Human Anatomy Surprise: New Muscle Layer Discovered in the Jaw
Human anatomy still has a few surprises in store for us: researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a previously overlooked section of our…
Anti-Aging: Scientists Discovered an Enzyme That Is Key to Why Exercise Improves Our Health
Uncovered: Key to How Exercise Protects Against Consequences of Aging Monash University, Australia scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves…
