Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered how exercise helps aging muscles regain their ability to repair ...

It is easier to build muscle while we’re young, but keeping muscle mass gets more difficult as we age. Starting around age 30, you naturally begin to lose mass, typically at a rate of 3%-5% per decade ...

Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Building muscle isn’t as simple as just lifting heavy things and hoping for the best. Gaining muscle is not so much about what you do, but rather how you do it. The same exercise could be used to ...

Almost everyone shrinks with old age. Many older adults have more difficulty gaining muscle than they did in their childhood and teenage years. And when it comes to maintaining that muscle, the phrase ...

The misconception that muscle can be lean or bulky lies in its appearance. “When people (say ‘lean’), they’re usually ...

A hard workout can come back to haunt you. When you wake up the next morning and try to get out of bed, everyday motions like rolling over and standing up can make your muscles whine in pain. You ...

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, ...

MIT scientists find that motor neuron growth increased significantly over 5 days in response to biochemical (left) and mechanical (right) signals related to exercise. The green ball represents cluster ...