The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

stretching the muscles, mindfulness, and meditation activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which in turn increases heart rate variability and improves vascular tone. Research has shown that ...

Bond: There was a clear gap in postpartum care, as many women with pregnancy-related cardiac risk factors were not being properly followed up after delivery. Traditional postpartum care often ...

This is due to contractions of small muscle fibres in response to sexual ... Typically at this stage, breathing and heart rates speed up, not because of physical activity, but because of ...

Cardiac remodeling, which is characterized by mechanical and ... These miRNAs are mainly expressed in muscle tissues and appear to repress the expression of non-muscle genes. Based on accumulating ...

In recent years, significant biotechnological advancements have been made in engineering human cardiac tissues and organ-like models. This field of research is crucial for both basic and translational ...