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Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly

When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes — a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

How muscle develops: A dance of cellular skeletons

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Apple peel makes mice mighty

For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Human growth hormone: Not a life extender after all?

People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy boosts recovery from heart attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy could be an effective way to improve survival rates among heart attack patients, new research by academics at the University of Bristol suggests.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How work tells muscles to grow

We take it for granted, but the fact that our muscles grow when we work them makes them rather unique. Now, researchers have identified a key ingredient needed for that bulking up to take place. A factor produced in working ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Muscling in on a mystery protein: Study of brawny pigs reveals key player in the genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- For thousands of years, humans have bred pigs for desirable traits, such as more muscle and less fat in the meat. Domestication makes animals ideal models for studying how genes control physical ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover cell of origin for childhood muscle cancer

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Ce ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biotech, nanotech and synthetic biology roles in future food supply explored

Some say the world's population will swell to 9 billion people by 2030 and that will present significant challenges for agriculture to provide enough food to meet demand, says University of Idaho animal scientist Rod Hill.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Muscle mass in elderly boosted by combining resistance exercise and blood flow restriction

For years, researchers have known that resistance exercise training -such as weightlifting, in which muscles work against gravity or another force — can be one of the most effective ways to fight the debilitating muscle loss ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Newly discovered regulatory mechanism essential for embryo development and may contribute to cancer

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a mechanism controlling the function of a protein that binds to DNA during embryonic development and may function to prevent abnormal tumor growth. When the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture

A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experiments show blood pressure drugs could help fight frailty

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers believe they've found a way to use widely available blood pressure drugs to fight the muscular weakness that normally accompanies aging.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Muscle loss in elderly linked to blood vessels' failure to dilate

Why do people become physically weaker as they age? And is there any way to slow, stop, or even reverse this process, breaking the link between increasing age and frailty?

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers discover new way diseases develop

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which cells direct gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used to direct the physical and behavioral ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0