State researchers continue to find more ways to help bats survive a fatal disease that wiped out 98 percent of the state’s hibernating bat species.

Gut microbes in hibernating 13-lined ground squirrels that break down urea provide a source of nitrogen for the fasting animals, helping them maintain protein balance in winter, a new study has found.

MADISON, Wis. — To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals — like the 13-lined ground squirrel — can slow their metabolism by as much as 99 percent, but they still need ...

Why the hibernating ribosomes attach to the surface of mitochondria is a mystery. “There could be different explanations,” Mattei said.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Heart researchers at the University at Buffalo have received a $2.5 million five-year grant to develop new strategies to reverse a heart dysfunction called "hibernating myocardium" ...

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Biochemical Foundations of Health and Energy Conservation in Hibernating Free-ranging Subadult Brown BearUrsus arctos. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016; 291 (43): 22509 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116 ...

Hibernating animals develop a similar insatiable appetite, called hyperphagia, but they may have evolved the means to genetically turn this on and off, which could help researchers to better ...

Superficially, hibernating bears seem passive and inert. For five months or more, they do not eat, drink, urinate, defecate or move, except occasionally to turn over or shiver.

While hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — they may help us prevent blood clots, according to a new study that looked at the blood samples of both ...