Learn how your muscles function as an endocrine organ. Training releases myokines to reduce chronic inflammation, improve focus, and extend life.

Even though I should have relaxed it, something still remainsThe muscle is stiff. It hurts when pressed. It is difficult to move.Finding that muscle and releasing the muscle contracture (a type of tri ...

The connections between the nervous system and muscles develop differently across the kingdom of life. It takes newborn humans roughly a year to develop the proper muscular systems that support the ...

Different tissues need different amounts of blood depending on what they are doing. Meeting those changing demands requires ...

The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a University of Michigan study. Nearly all animals use muscle to move, and it's been known for a long ...

A study in human prostate tissues finds that inhibitors of the Rab GTPases Rab7 and Rab27 fail to consistently alter ...

Using powerful new visualization technologies, researchers have captured the first 3-D images of the structure of a key muscle receptor, providing new insights on how muscles develop across the animal ...

New research has shown one type of muscle contraction is most effective at increasing muscle strength and muscle size -- and rather than lifting weights, the emphasis should be on lowering them. Good ...

A new small study reveals that getting less than four hours of sleep reduces physical endurance by altering how different ...