Stem cells hold great potential for addressing a variety of conditions from spinal cord injuries to cancer, but they can be difficult to control. Scientists are now reporting in the journal... Read more
Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature’s book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication o... Read more
A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in mice using a new approach for tissue engineering. The scien... Read more
For the first time, materials displaying muscle ‘memory’ have been developed The importance of muscle memory cannot be understated. A flautist repeatedly practising a sonata may initially st... Read more
What if repairing large segments of damaged muscle tissue was as simple as mobilizing the body’s stem cells to the site of the injury? New research in mice and rats, conducted at Wake Forest... Read more
North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control... Read more
A new study in mice reveals that mesenchymal (mezz-EN-chem-uhl) stem cells (MSCs) help rejuvenate skeletal muscle after resistance exercise. By injecting MSCs into mouse leg muscles prior to... Read more
UC Berkeley researchers have discovered that oxytocin — a hormone associated with maternal nurturing, social attachments, childbirth and sex — is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance... Read more
The engineers are now beginning work to see if their biomimetic muscle can be used to repair actual muscle injuries and disease. Biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that l... Read more
Stem cells derived from human muscle tissue were able to repair nerve damage and restore function in an animal model of sciatic nerve injury, according to researchers at the University of Pi... Read more
This loading system simulates an additional 1g bodyweight Researchers at King’s College London are working with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the European Space Agency (ESA... Read more
An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new mu... Read more
“We were able to show that transplantation of the old treated muscle stem cell population repaired the damage and restored strength to injured muscles of old mice” Researchers at the Stanfor... Read more
Researchers have created a control system that makes robots more intelligent. Using arm sensors that can “read” a person’s muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have ... Read more
A Micro-Muscular Break Through: a micro-robotic system that simulates an active neuromuscular system
A thousand times more powerful than a human muscle, able to catapult objects 50 times heavier than itself over a distance five times its length within 60 milliseconds – faster than the blin... Read more
