Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Sun Yat-sen University discovered new cell populations that could improve understanding of why some muscle fibers age faster than others.

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 ...

A collaborative study led by Prof. Liu Guanghui from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. Wang ...

Muscles can only contract and relax, so they always work in pairs called antagonistic muscles. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend. Skeletal ...

How muscle changes with aging and tries to fight its effects is now better understood at the cellular and molecular level ...

Background: It is well established that prolonged, exhaustive endurance exercise is capable of inducing skeletal muscle damage and temporary impairment of muscle function. Although skeletal muscle has ...

New research examining the skeletal muscle cells of patients with inclusion body myositis (IBM) has revealed that the nucleic acid-binding protein TDP-43, which is normally restricted to the ...

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancer of the muscle lineage. Cancer Cachexia is a muscle and fat wasting syndrome associated with cancers of the pancreas, lung, colon. Nemaline myopathy is associated ...