Balance Boards Can Be Great Fitness Tools\u2014If You Use Them Right

This is Your Quick Training Tip, a chance to learn how to work smarter in just a few moments so you can get right to your workout. There was a time when instability training was nearly synonymous with doing heavy lifts on wobbly platforms. People would grab some dumbbells or load up a bar, step […]

Researchers discover balance between two protein counteracting forces in hereditary ataxias

Collaborating with the University of Oxford, Professor Ho Yin Edwin Chan’s research team from the School of Life Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) recently unveiled the counteracting relationship between pre-mRNA-processing factor 19 (Prpf19) and exocyst complex component 7 (Exoc7) in controlling the degradation of disease protein and neurodegeneration of the rare […]

A matter of balance: Asymmetric divisions are crucial to form a functional retina

Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, have discovered that in the developing retina, and important part of the central nervous system, the divisions leading to the first differentiating neurons are asymmetric and that this asymmetry is necessary to generate the […]

How an immune system regulator shifts the balance of immune cells

Researchers have provided new insight on the role of cyclic AMP (cAMP) in regulating the immune response. Their study, published today in eLife, reveals that cAMP shifts the type of immune system t-helper (Th) cells created in response to a threat by repressing gene transcription by key proteins. The findings may help scientists develop new […]