New research reveals humans carry dormant hibernation genes that could revolutionize treatment of obesity, diabetes, and ...

The team theorizes, that over evolutionary time, these genes became genetic "switches," turned on or off depending on whether ...

Clusters of genes found in humans match those that hibernating animals like mice use to power down during lean times, a new ...

New genetic research suggests that hibernating animals’ metabolic superpowers could lie hidden in our own DNA – and provides ...

Scientists found genetic elements linked to hibernation in the human genome. Tapping into them could produce a new wave of ...

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

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 ...

Hibernating bears don't form blood clots like sedentary humans. A new discovery sheds light on their secret, and could lead to treatments for thrombosis.

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.

Scientists in Japan have made a fascinating discovery around muscle wasting, demonstrating how human muscle cells can be infused with serum from hibernating black bears to not just prevent atrophy ...

Scientists have observed that the hibernating form of the ribosome is not a permanent state and that if conditions are favorable, it can “wake up” and return to its active form, called 70S, and begin ...