A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits. New research shows that during extreme ...

When you run a marathon, it’s not just your legs that get exhausted. Your brain gets hungry too. So hungry, in fact, that it ...

How does our nervous system operate so quickly and efficiently? The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin. Aa Aa Aa All our activities — eating, walking, talking — are controlled ...

More information: Pedro Ramos-Cabrer et al, Reversible reduction in brain myelin content upon marathon running, Nature Metabolism (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01244-7 ...

Conducting similar profiling of oligodendrocytes, she says, showed that genes associated with making cholesterol were significantly upregulated in the cells, while genes associated with myelin ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh are using the small minnow fish to study how MS damages the protective coating ...

According to a study published by Nature Metabolism, marathon runners experience reversible changes in their brain myelin. These findings indicate that myelin (a substance that surrounds the ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Scientists have discovered another fuel source for runners. Myelin, the fatty substance that helps the nerve cells in our brains ...

Research published in the Journal of Neurochemistry has detailed the role of a protein, hnRNP A1, in the formation and stability of myelin, suggesting an important impact on neurodegenerative ...

Research published in the Journal of Neurochemistry has detailed the role of a protein, hnRNP A1, in the formation and ...

Dr. Pablo M. Paez is a Principal Investigator of the Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration and Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical ...

The POC Myelin cycle helmet is a new arrival and, if you’ve always tutted about having to don protective head gear when on two wheels, it might make you think again. What we’ve got here is ...