Why is it that some people love to exercise, and others hate it? Most people would assume it’s all due to genetics, but a new Baylor College of Medicine led study in mice shows for the first time that ...

Scientists at Orlando’s Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have come up with an unusual new model for studying the way muscles work and how that relates to obesity: a couch-potato mouse. In a ...

Using 'marathon' and 'couch potato' mouse models, researchers have discovered that microRNAs link the defining characteristics of fit muscles: The abilities to burn fuel and switch between muscle ...

A group of investigators at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in Orlando created a new breed of rodent they call the "couch potato mouse." In doing so, they've gained some insights into a ...

Do you know what it means to "google" someone? Surely those "mouse potatoes" out there do, but what's with these crazy words? They're just a few of the words and phrases just added to the ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Ron Evans at the Salk Institute says that his lab's genetically modified mice can "run the pants off" their control counterparts. Studying these ...

A study in mice shows for the first time that epigenetics -- the molecular mechanisms that determine which genes are turned on or off -- plays a key role in determining an individual's innate drive to ...