The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, ...

The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, it can lead to serious problems: from debilitating shortness of breath and ...

Regulation of the blood pressure is a vital physiological process enabling the body to respond to immediately changing ...

A new study shows that people with type 2 diabetes have lower levels of the protein that breaks down and converts creatine in the muscles. This leads to impaired function of the mitochondria, the ...

People who lose weight at a gradual, steady pace of about half a pound to two pounds per week, are more likely to keep the weight off and are less ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that people with type 2 diabetes ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that people with type 2 diabetes ...

MicroRNAs, or miRNAs, are small, non-coding molecules of RNA. They play an important role in determining how much messenger RNA (mRNA), which carries genetic information, eventually gets translated ...

Skeletal tissue is composed of two distinct micro-skeletal structures—cortical bone (~80%) and trabecular bone (~20%)—that function as sites of muscle and tendon attachment for locomotion ... and ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...