Brave mum Gail Redpath is undergoing palliative chemotherapy after doctors found a golf ball-sized growth in her womb - which ...

As we age, the muscles we rely on for daily activities tend to become less reliable. With enough decline, even normal movements such as getting out of bed become risky. Low muscle mass in the ...

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Researchers Sumika Kato, Takeo Kubo, and Taro Fukazawa of the University of Tokyo have discovered that c1qtnf3, a secreting factor, namely a protein molecule that is secreted by a cell and influences ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body’s best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

The more we move, the more our muscle cells begin to make a memory of that exercise. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you ...

Aging is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Preventing age-induced arterial dysfunction and the associated risk of cardiovascular disease remains a significant clinical challenge.

Capricor Therapeutics’ cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy has come up short at the FDA, with the regulator rejecting the biotech’s application seeking regulatory approval for what the ...

1 Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China 2 Department of Cardiology, Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Affiliated Hangzhou First ...

Muscle cells contain their own circadian clocks and disrupting them with shift work can have a profound impact on aging, according to the results of a preclinical study carried out by Jeffrey Kelu, ...

We all want to know if and how we can come back to form after injury, illness, or a long hiatus. Muscles adapt in response to the environment: They grow when we put in the work and shrink when we stop ...