News tagged with muscle fibres
New study suggests stem cells sabotage their own DNA to produce new tissues
A new study from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa suggests that stem cells intentionally break their own DNA as a way of regulating tissue development. The study, published in Proceedings of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Zombie ants have fungus on the brain
Tropical carpenter ants (Camponotus leonardi) live high up in the rainforest canopy. When infected by a parasitic fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) the behaviour of the ants is dramatically changed. They ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Exercise may slow progression of ALS
University of Alberta researchers are looking at exercise as a new way to slow the degenerative processes of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Triggering muscle development -- a therapeutic cure for muscle wastage?
Scientists in the UK and Denmark have shown that if elderly men were given growth hormone and exercised their legs showed an appreciable muscle mass increase.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 01, 2009 |
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