If you didn’t already know you have different types of muscle fibers in your body, now you do. And depending on how you exercise or what sports you enjoy, you’re building and recruiting some ...

Subscribe for FREE Muscle fibers are divided into three types: slow twitch (type I) or red fibers due to the large number of ...

A new international study led by the University of Granada suggests that melatonin, a hormone known for regulating sleep, may also help protect muscles from damage caused by obesity and type 2 ...

To overcome this issue, Ng and colleagues decided to examine the fiber distribution by using mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), which can capture high resolution images of intact frozen muscle sections.