From fat cells that stretch like spandex to more flexible muscles, scientists are finding that women’s bodies are just as ...

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Loss of muscle mass is also a significant challenge for athletes, as many sports encourage them to keep body weight low while ...

Anyone who steps onto Mars will be crossing a one-way threshold in more ways than one. The physics of getting there and back, ...

Prolonged inactivity decreases mechanical loading on bones, which is crucial for maintaining bone density. Over time, this ...

If we aren’t experiencing knee pain, it’s easy to bypass the need to strengthen them. However, as life stresses accumulate ...

A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes dysfunction of muscle cells that help move blood through the circulatory system, a ...

As longevity science has entered the wellness zeitgeist, experts have worked to popularise the idea of health span over ...

The Difference: Athletic bodies have muscle tone and definition that skinny bodies lack, but significantly less mass than ...

The work drew on 12 years of follow up for 5,440 participants aged 50 and over. The researchers focused on a dangerous combination often referred to as sarcopenic obesity, where muscle is lost while ...

Scientists discover that muscles repair themselves by moving thousands of internal nuclei, a rapid process that is key after ...