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Scientists discover that muscles repair themselves by moving thousands of internal nuclei, a rapid process that is key after ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes dysfunction of muscle cells that help move blood through the circulatory system, a ...

There’s no slowing the hands of time….but your legs are another story. In A Nutshell Korean scientists identified 20 DNA markers in chest muscle that predict age within 3.8 years by tracking chemical ...

Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...