Mouse model study shows how brown fat could improve exercise performance and extend one’s lifespan In a nutshell Brown fat, unlike white fat, burns calories and can boost exercise performance by ...

Rutgers researchers found that increased brown fat improves longevity and exercise capacity in mice. They aim to develop a ...

The most comprehensive model of the brain’s metabolism, incorporating more than 16,800 biochemical interactions, has ...

show that the drastic changes seen in human blood in old age do not occur in old mice. The research, published in Nature, raises important questions about aging and stem cell research models used ...

Model allowed researchers to better understand the complex molecular mechanisms that determine the robustness, flexibility, ...

"This mouse model performs exercise better than their ... The discovery emerged from broader research into healthy aging. The modified mice, which lack a protein called RGS14, live about 20% ...

A team of scientists from China has made a breakthrough in understanding how aging affects muscles and found a possible way ...

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the ...

Biologists refer to the mouse as a “model organism,” because they can ... and these mice also help study the role genes play in conditions like aging, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, diabetes ...

The genetically modified mice produced unusually high amounts ... cancer—and what we have to do is find new drugs based on models of healthful aging." Rather than develop a treatment that ...