http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Genes relocated from their correct position in the nucleus cause them to malfunction and this may lead to the heart, blood vessels and muscles breaking down. This new discovery by A*STAR scientists may be the key to finding new cures in the future. http://phys.org/news279521865.html Biology Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:57:53 EST news279521865 Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Cologne, Germany have discovered the molecular basis underlying the patterned folding and assembly of muscle proteins. They describe the strikingly new mechanism in the current issue of Cell. http://phys.org/news277713376.html Biology Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:43:55 EST news277713376 Molecular geneticists call big boss proteins that switch on broad developmental or metabolic programs "master regulators," as in master regulators of muscle development or fat metabolism. One such factor, the Activating Transcription Factor 6α (ATF6α) protein, takes charge following a cellular crisis known as endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, which is triggered by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins. http://phys.org/news260111914.html Chemistry Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:50:02 EST news260111914 Africa will benefit greatly from advances in livestock science that will benefit the animals and the people they provide with high quality protein, said scientists here Sunday. http://phys.org/news248890814.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:20:24 EST news248890814 A study into the muscle development of several different fish has given insights into the genetic leap that set the scene for the evolution of hind legs in terrestrial animals. This innovation gave rise to the tetrapods—four-legged creatures, and our distant ancestors—that made the first small steps on land some 400 million years ago. http://phys.org/news236968057.html Biology Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:27:47 EST news236968057 Revealing another part of the story of muscle development, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown how the cytoskeleton from one muscle cell builds finger-like projections that invade into another muscle cell's territory, eventually forcing the cells to combine. http://phys.org/news226372053.html Biology Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:14:25 EST news226372053 Student scientist Ross Thomson has been researching whether young male gym users are affected by what has been termed as the 'Adonis Complex'. http://phys.org/news213967193.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:20:24 EST news213967193 Growth hormone is used to treat children's growth disorders and has been used by some sports men and women to promote muscle growth and regeneration. http://phys.org/news205157653.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:30:02 EST news205157653 New findings that shed light on how genetic damage to muscle cell proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle-wasting disease, nemaline myopathy, are reported today (15 March) in the Biochemical Journal. http://phys.org/news187618966.html Chemistry Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:23:23 EST news187618966 Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap. http://phys.org/news159515221.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:47:31 EST news159515221 Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that a molecule implicated in leukemia and lung cancer is also important in muscle repair and in a muscle cancer that strikes mainly children. http://phys.org/news149860013.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:46:53 EST news149860013