The Neanderthal variant in AMPD1 decreases its enzymatic activity by 25% in lab-produced proteins and by up to 80% in the muscles of genetically engineered...
If you can wiggle your ears, you can use the auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These muscles helped change the shape...
Recent studies suggest that a muscle called the levator anguli oculi medialis (LAOM) is unique to dogs (Canis familiaris) and evolved due to domestication....
Researchers at Stanford University have found that an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine,...
During sleep, sporadically, it is possible to find neural patterns of activity in areas of the avian brain that are activated during the generation of...
The fastest animals are neither large elephants nor tiny ants, but intermediately sized, like cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Why does running speed break...
Danionella cerebrum, a translucent fish species of only 12 mm length, produces high amplitude sounds exceeding 140 dB (re. 1 µPa, at a distance of one...
New research shows that the small sounds generated within the ear by the brain contain accurate information about contemporaneous eye movements in the...
Scientists from Stockholm University, the Arctic University of Norway, Lund University and Karolinska Institute have extracted, sequenced and analyzed...
Soft tissues rarely preserve in the fossil record, rather scientists are mostly left with just the skeletal material. Yet, muscles animate the body. They...
Supplementation of dietary nitrate — commonly found in beetroot juice — increases nitric oxide bioavailability and can enhance exercise performance....
Suction is an especially effective way of feeding underwater, and adaptations to enhance it have evolved numerous times in jawed vertebrates. The only...
A new review of the available clinical evidence, published in the journal BMJ Open, suggests that osteopathic manipulative treatment could be effective...
New research suggests that ancient humans played a role in selecting dogs with sweetest faces.
Burrows & Omstead show that the domestication process...
Using correlative neutron and X-ray tomography, paleontologists have examined an exceptionally preserved specimen of Sigaloceras enodatum — a species...
Chromatin is a substance within a chromosome consisting of DNA and protein. The major proteins in chromatin are histones, which help package the DNA in...
A new study in mice provides insights into the use of green tea and cocoa flavonoids as nutritional interventions for the treatment of aging-related neuromuscular...
Vitamin D do not have a beneficial effect on muscle function, strength, or mass in non-athletes and may in some cases even have a negative effect, according...
