Physiology

Synthesizing an alternative fuel for muscle could lead to medical advancesCredit: UMass Amherst/Debold lab AMHERST, Mass. - A chemist and kinesiologist got on a bus, but this isn't the set-up to a joke. Instead, kinesiologist and lead…

New study reveals how a compound found in capers regulates proteins that control important bodily processesCredit: Bo Abbott Irvine, CA - July 13, 2020 - A compound commonly found in pickled capers has been shown to activate…

Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas - The University of Texas at El Paso was awarded $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to shed light on how the combined function of neural circuits…

A novel lab-on-a-chip device reveals the blood type within minutes, holding much potential for use in an emergencyCredit: Tokyo University of Science Blood transfusion, if performed promptly, is a potentially life-saving intervention for…

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina find link between mental imagery and vision using artificial intelligence and human brain studiesCredit: Dr. Guenther Noack, 2015, reproduced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). …

Biologists from the University of Bayreuth disprove the view that Mauthner cells are unable to regenerateCredit: Image: Alexander Hecker. Biologists from the University of Bayreuth have discovered a uniquely rapid form of…

Credit: James Betts, the University of Bath Consuming protein at night increases blood sugar level in the morning for healthy people, according to new research presented this week at The Physiological Society's virtual early career…

A team of researchers led by Osaka University find that adiponectin, a hormone derived from fat cells, improves the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell-based treatment of heart failureCredit: Copyright© 2020 Molecular Therapy. All right…

Credit: Vít Lukáš/ National Museum, Prague The evolution of our teeth began among ancient armoured fishes more than 400 million years ago. In the scientific journal Science, an international team led by researchers from Uppsala…

How flavor flows over taste buds affects the way humans perceive taste, study finds COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study might explain why humans register some tastes more quickly than others, potentially due to each flavor's molecular size. The…

Credit: Western Pacific Tropical Research Center, University of Guam The need to cover an open wound on cycad stem cuttings has been confirmed by the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center at the University of Guam in a study…

Newly produced spermatozoa within the testis are not fully functional until they mature in the epididymis, a duct that helps to transport and store sperm. Male infertility may arise from lack of communication between the testis and the…

Credit: TMiMS Researchers at TMIMS have revealed that PINK1 (a serine/threonine kinase) and Parkin (a ubiquitin ligating enzyme: E3) work together to ubiquitylate the outer membrane proteins of damaged mitochondria to induce…

So far there are no approved drugs for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease AURORA, Colo. (July 8, 2020) - In an effort to combat a growing worldwide epidemic of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), scientists have discovered a new…

Credit: Nicole Aponte-Santiago/MIT Picower Institute A new study by MIT neuroscientists into how seemingly similar neuronal subtypes drive locomotion in the fruit fly revealed an unexpected diversity as the brain's commands were…

Credit: Kenta Maruyama In a new study published in Cell, "RNA sensing by gut Piezo1 is essential for systemic serotonin synthesis", a research team led by Kenta Maruyama M.D., Ph.D. from National Institute for Physiological…

Researchers in Korea have now developed a new method to power medical implants using an active photonic wireless systemCredit: Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Over the past few decades, medical technology seen various…

Credit: Photo credit: Anita Bean On a gram for gram basis, animal proteins are more effective than plant proteins in supporting the maintenance of skeletal muscle mass with advancing age, shows research presented this week at The…

Long distance runnersCredit: Lieberman, Daniel E. "Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture," just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June 2020): 356-379) studies the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico. For over a…

Credit: Samir Kadri, a former York visiting PhD student What causes African hybrid honey bees (AHB), also known as killer bees, to be highly defensive and aggressive? York University researchers have found it was the mixing of…