BYU Professor David Thomson is working to understand a chemical pathway in human muscles that may explain the effects of exercise.

Researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat ageing-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to ...

"The same machinery is operating in both cases but with different readouts." The first clue about the possible connection ...

A $3.2 million grant from @NIH is empowering @UHouston researchers to tackle Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant cancer that has a ...

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow and survive in the microgravity environment of space. The team's findings, published in Biomaterials ...

Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ...