It's well known that spaceflight causes muscle atrophy and other biological changes in reduced gravity, and especially in ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a protein excreted by type I (slow) muscle fibers, key to muscle endurance, can cause surrounding myoblasts, ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned structure of animal skeletal muscle, producing materials that resist ...

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is a well-studied but still somewhat misunderstood phenomenon in exercise science. It refers to the muscle pain, stiffness, and tenderness that typically peaks ...

Researchers building a model of muscle damage in a cultured system found that components leaking from broken muscle fibers activate ''satellite cells,'' which are muscle stem cells. While attempting ...

Researchers find that a gut bacterium may influence muscle strength and fitness, opening the door to probiotics that support ...