When most people think about muscle mass, they picture the muscles you flex at the gym. However, it encompasses more ...

A muscle strain, or a pulled muscle, is among the most common injuries affecting people of all ages, particularly those engaging in physical activity or sports.

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

MIT engineers have made a breakthrough in this area—they’ve developed a method to grow muscle tissue that contracts in ...

Similarly, a 2007 study investigated the effects of whole-body vibration training in men over 60 and found that it has the "potential to prevent or reverse the age-related loss in skeletal muscle ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

The importance of TGF-β family proteins in muscle cell differentiation is well illustrated by the effects of myostatin/growth development factor (GDF)-8, a TGF-β family member that is first ...

In this Research Topic, several studies have examined the relationship between nutritional strategies, diet-microbiota interactions, and skeletal muscle function, particularly in the context of ...

Department of Cardiology, Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of ...

There is increasing awareness of the limitations of standard biochemical markers of cardiac damage in patients with acute coronary syndromes. A desire to improve sensitivity and specificity has led to ...