In the event of a heart attack, the affected part of the heart muscle can no longer be supplied with oxygen and nutrients. As ...

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

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent ...

Skeletal muscles grow and regenerate as individual precursor cells—called myoblasts—fuse into long fibers from which mature ...

A new Aging Cell review details how skeletal muscle communicates with bone, brain, and tumors through extracellular vesicles, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized ...