The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new study. The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, ...

Beet juice boosts endurance for many (but not all) people, according to a series of studies over the past five years or so. The active ingredient appears to be nitrate, which somehow reduces the ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Summer's just around the corner and it's starting to get warm. That means a lot of people will be flocking to the gym or spend our ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan Purtell, RDN Key Takeaways Because vinegar affects nerve receptors, pickle juice might stop muscle cramps faster than water.  Pickle juice may also help ease menstrual ...

Researchers were able to use light to induce normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say a regulatory protein found in skeletal muscle fiber may play an important role in the body's fight or flight response when encountering stressful ...

8-minute bed routine to rebuild muscle after 65, from a certified personal trainer, using low-load strength moves and time ...

No matter how regularly you exercise, artificial muscles have long since surpassed their natural counterparts. Now, researchers from the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the ...