Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren't so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate ...

Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

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 ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

The demand for tissue and organ replacement following tissue damage (eg, severe burns) or diseases (eg, cardiomyopathy) is expanding, and, while the number of patients suffering from organ failure ...

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARWR), a biopharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of $2.68 billion specializing in RNA interference (RNAi) technology, is on the cusp of a ...

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 ... the protocols so far have assumed that the myocardium is a postmitotic tissue without regenerative potential, making transplantation of cells ...

First, the exercise breaks down muscle protein, which is called "catabolism." That causes the tissue to rebuild, which results in an increase in muscle mass called "anabolism." The gain is greater ...