New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

How well our brain functions depends heavily on the performance of our nerve cells. That is why they are regularly checked for their proper function -- defective cell components are marked, disposed ...

Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

While iron and calcium are the metals that get the most attention, zinc is also important for human health and function.

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Mice whose MTCH2 proteins were silenced, or deleted, developed increased athletic capacity – they grew more muscle fibers, ...

Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 ...

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a technique that could help advance ...

Each day, a human needs to consume about the equivalent ... sentient life form that lives within every living cell. To biologists, midi-chlorians sound suspiciously similar to mitochondria, the ...