Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

Muscles are formed by the merging of many small myoblasts into larger myofibers. This fusion of mononucleated myoblasts with a single nucleus into multinucleated myofibers with multiple nuclei is an ...

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common than previously thought. New research led by the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those ...

You’ve probably heard the phrase “muscle memory” thrown around at some point, but it might not mean what you think it does. In fact, many everyday exercisers misunderstand the concept of muscle memory ...

Building muscle depends on several factors and isn't something that'll happen overnight after just one workout.

Every cell in your body is a specific size. Red blood cells, neurons, skin cells and muscle cells are all individuals, but ...

Muvon Therapeutics has linked its cell therapy to a 60% drop in stress incontinence episode frequency in a small phase 2 trial, leading the biotech to pitch the candidate as a way to reduce reliance ...

“Other signs of prolonged insufficient protein intake include leg swelling, anemia, and poor wound healing,” Jones adds. While severe edema from protein deficiency is rare in developed countries, mild ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...