UCLA researchers have found that specific molecular changes in mice may actually provide protective effects instead of causing harm.

Our hearts beat around 100,000 times a day—and do so throughout our entire lives. They draw the energy for this from the ...

Every year, more than 200,000 people in Germany suffer a heart attack. This is caused by blocked coronary arteries. As a ...

The biology behind muscle pain: calcium chaos, microscopic damage, and the overlooked mechanism that explains how statins can ...

For millions of people, statins are a daily safeguard against heart attacks and strokes. But for about 1 in 10 users, these widely prescribed drugs come with an unexpected tradeoff—persistent muscle ...

Researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto have demonstrated a new way ...

*A gene therapy that may eliminate, or significantly reduce, the need for daily insulin injections is preparing to enter ...

Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD, discusses the importance of understanding why certain cells (like cancer cells) can survive in ...

A research team reports that muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is dangerous not only because tumor cells breach the bladder’s detrusor muscle, but also because that invasion can reprogram the ...

Goosebumps might be a common phenomenon we experience in our lives, as they were for our ancestors, but they might play an ...

Another – a compact former powerlifter competing for the first time – had muscles that seemed impossibly dense. Even the also-rans had distinct strengths and weaknesses. The highlight, though, was a ...