There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle fibers are those which are attached to the skeleton. They are ...

Adding to the growing fundamental understanding of the machinery of muscle cells, a group of biophysicists describe -- in minute detail -- how actin filaments are stabilized at one of their ends to ...

New insights into the structure of muscle tissue in the heart have been provided in a study led by researchers from McGill University. This is a finding that promises to contribute to the study of ...

MRI data shows skeletal frame size predicts muscle potential better than height, weight or BMI ...

Wenbo Chen and Misha Kudryashev from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences of the Goethe University Frankfurt, have succeeded in elucidating the ...

When a car accident or athletic injury destroys more than 20% of a muscle's mass, the body faces a problem it often can't ...

(Nanowerk News) Inspired by the structure of muscles, an innovative new strategy for creating fiber actuators could lead to advances in robotics, prosthetics, and smart clothing, according to a Penn ...

The Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology, Vol. 10, No. 4, Part 2: Supplement: The Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (Aug., 1961), pp. 111-121 (11 pages) The extrinsic eye muscles of the killifish (F.