Different tissues need different amounts of blood depending on what they are doing. Meeting those changing demands requires ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

Cachexia is one of the most severe forms of muscle wasting in humans. It affects up to 80% of cancer patients and is caused ...

By merging bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing with machine learning and lab experiments, researchers have identified smooth ...

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin, two-finned robot lined with light-sensitive muscle cells that can swim and swivel ...

Skeletal muscles are capable of regenerating themselves following an injury, a process that depends on muscle stem cells. In ...

In a shallow dish of water, a sliver of gel no bigger than a stick of gum flaps its way toward a blue light. The swimmer has ...

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 ...

Have you ever taken months off training – maybe due to an injury, a new baby or crushing work deadlines – and come back ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena and the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in ...

Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right. In a paper published Sept. 28 in the journal Advanced ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden biological mechanism that helps explain how exercise can reverse some of the damage caused by muscle aging. The key is a gene called DEAF1, which becomes overactive ...