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 ...

Losing muscle strength is a natural part of aging. At the core of this decline is a drop in the number of muscle stem cells ...

Researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE) and other partner institutions of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have now identified a previously ...

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function ...

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

Thirty marks the spot. Starting at this age, we begin to lose approximately three to eight percent of muscle mass per decade. With it, we also lose strength and mobility. Left unaddressed, this loss ...

Aging muscles take time for recovery because stem cells build up a protein called NDRG1. This slows repair but helps cells ...

Your body’s muscle fibers aren’t all the same—and they don’t adapt to training in the same way. Understanding the difference between slow-twitch and fast-twitch fibers can help you tailor workouts for ...

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, ...