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Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers discovered they can produce electrical signals like neurons.
Genetics, age, hormones and nutrition can affect the growth of your hair and nails. Here’s how.
Understanding the differences in growth rate between animals can help clarify the mechanisms behind aging-related diseases and offer ways to treat them.
A term emerged in the 1980s for a spinal cord injury caused by breaking called ‘break-dancing neck.’
So you’ve taken up running again… until the inevitable aches kick in. What causes muscle pain? And is there anything you can do about it?
What a painful feeling side stitch is What causes it and how do you get rid of it?
The heat comes from everywhere when you’re active outside on hot days – the Sun’s rays, the air around you, the ground and even your own body.
Sleep appears to play an essential role in a number of brain functions, such as memory. So good quality sleep could play a vital role in preventing dementia.
From body snatching to Photoshop and virtual reality, the techniques of medical illustration have evolved. But its essential role in showing clinicians how to care for the body continues today.
Heat illnesses can vary, from relatively mild heat exhaustion to the potentially life-threatening condition of heat stroke. Here’s how to tell the difference.
When you’re an astronaut landing on the Moon, you can’t rely on the same gravitational cues we have on Earth. But regimented training with sensory devices could one day prevent spatial disorientation.
Why the speed of fast bowling in cricket seems to have stalled.
Working a day on the firelines as a wildland firefighter can require the endurance of riding the Tour de France. That takes a toll, as a physiologist explains.
Two days after Rodgers’ injury, the NFL players union called on the league to convert all playing fields to natural grass.
A shower, a swim, a warm bath: there are a number of common pee triggers. So how much of our need to pee comes down to psychology?
Twenty-five years of research show what it takes to fuel wildland firefighters through an average day, and the toll the long seasonal work takes on their bodies.
A new study shows that the gut microbiota has little or no effect on our weight, metabolism and risk of developing chronic diseases.
The gargantuan feet of NBA players are the stuff of legend. But nearly two-thirds of their injuries occur below the waist, and they have a 25.8% chance of incurring an ankle injury every season.
There are simple ways to alleviate regular hiccups – and treatments for when they persist.
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Anatomy, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
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Professor, Curtin School of Allied Health, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
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Professor of exercise and work physiology, University of Montana
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Duncan Mitchell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Doctorant en Sciences du Mouvement Humain, Université Côte d’Azur
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Doctorant en Sciences du Mouvement Humain, Université Côte d’Azur
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Melbourne