In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses "sweet taste" receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering have found that studying blood flow in leg ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult ...

Help Register Login Login Hi, %{firstName}% Hi, %{firstName}% Games Car rental Strength training and muscle mass provide all sorts of health benefits, regardless of your age. But because of sarcopenia ...

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

Bruce Rapport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (I.R.H., N.K., C.B., O.C.). The Clinical Research Institute at Rambam ...

According to a 2020 study, three weeks of detraining did not affect muscle thickness, strength, or sports performance in adolescent athletes. According to Jesse Shaw, D.O., associate professor of ...

Myocyte death and formation of new myocytes by the CSCs are the two processes that enable this organ to maintain a proper and uninterrupted cardiac output from birth to adulthood and into old age.

The myocardium is composed of a specialized type of muscle cell called cardiac muscle that is only found in the heart. Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle, but is controlled by both the ...

Before an intercostal muscle strain is diagnosed, other causes of chest pain may need to be ruled out. An electrocardiogram (EKG) and echocardiogram (echo) may be performed to examine your heart ...