For people who hate exercising, here comes some more bad news: it may also keep you younger. Not just looking younger, but actually younger, on an epigenetic level. By now, the benefits of exercise have been well established, ...
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A molecule of RNA called CARMN has been found in abundance in the healthy smooth muscle cells that help give our blood vessels strength and flexibility, and distinctly decreased in vascular diseases like atherosclerosis, ...
Jan 14, 2022
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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 jaw muscles and described this layer in detail for the first time.
Dec 20, 2021
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Simultaneously achieving ultra-softness, ultrahigh sensitivity and mechanical resiliency is a major challenge for wearable electronics and soft machines. The soft yet wearable sensors with their mechanical properties well ...
Dec 20, 2021
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An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA—the same platform technology used in two highly effective COVID-19 vaccines—shows promise in mice and non-human primates, according to scientists at the National Institute of ...
Dec 9, 2021
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In a joint, collaborative effort between laboratories at EPFL, NTNU Norway and CBMR Denmark, researchers examined the molecular effect of exercise upon noncoding RNA genes in skeletal muscle in Science Translational Medicine. ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Muscle dystrophy describes a set of diseases that causes the weakening and loss of muscle. Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy is a rare disease that is the result of a mutation in one or more three COL6 genes, resulting ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into the heart during a bypass operation. Despite high initial hopes and multiple experimental and clinical studies ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Researchers from Kobe University's Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation/Graduate School of Medicine have succeeded in generating Leydig cells from human iPS cells. Leydig cells are responsible for producing ...
Nov 29, 2021
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A new cardiac patch developed by a collaborative team led by Western University is just the stuff that could get your blood pumping—literally.
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