General Physiology News Today

One copy of the human genome is more than 3 billion nucleotides in length, and weighs in at about 3.5 picograms (pg, or trillionths of a gram).

New research explains how light movement before your workout preps your muscles for running

Everybody knows the importance of warming up your muscles before a workout. But what is actually going on when we warm our muscles up, and are all muscles the same? You might be surprised to find out that the science behind this routine activity hasn't always been clear.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 was awarded jointly to , and "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system".

They might look cute, but the toxins from a poison dart frog can be strong enough to kill several humans.

Some animals, such as poison dart frogs, carry enough toxic chemicals to kill multiple adult humans, but theyve evolved tricks to avoid poisoning themselves.