Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Strong leg muscles do not just keep you upright and mobile. They actively protect your brain, sharpen your thinking, and may ...

For most of us, everyday life is characterized by a lack of movement. But those long hours sitting at a desk, commuting by ...

A separate study also in 2018, this time conducted on mice, found exercising the lower extremities to be critical to brain ...

(CNN) — When you hear the term “muscle memory,” it conjures up images of your muscles being able to memorize certain movements, such as dribbling a soccer ball or playing “Happy Birthday” on the piano ...

Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the youngest ...

Consistency is always the focus of exercise plans, which can lead people to giving up altogether if they miss a few workouts. But a new study has found that even after a 10-week break from strength ...

Rebuild leg muscle after 50 with these 5 joint-friendly morning exercises. Safer than squats and easy to do at home.

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain-machine interfaces. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...