In addition to seeing the structure of muscles, the miniature microscope can also test how well they work. The device stimulates muscle fibers with tiny jolts of electricity and then measures the ...

Instead, muscle fibers exist on a continuum ... allowing them to sustain aerobic activity for long periods. Under a microscope, slow-twitch fibers appear darker due to their mitochondria-rich ...

Kiisa Nishikawa is a researcher at NAU who has worked for years on her theory regarding muscle contraction. Her “winding-filament” theory has the potential to change textbooks and may ...

We engineered a miniaturized biomechatronics system and integrated it into a multiphoton microscope, allowing us to directly assess the strength and elasticity of individual muscle fibres at the ...

Under a microscope they look like four tuna steaks ... What You Need to Know About Muscle Fibers Until recently, scientists thought there were three types of muscle fibers: type I (slow twitch ...

"There are several immune muscle diseases where the primary damage you see under the microscope is muscle fiber breakdown. Each of those diseases has a different prognosis and requires a different ...

Researchers have just made the unexpected discovery of a novel organization of muscle fibers in Parophidion ... longitudinal section under the optical microscope, these fibres appear as a ...

They’re using a muscle filament protein to build polymer networks that can be observed by a microscope, and by doing so have already determined why some polymers get tougher with repeated stress ...

In the second, proof-of-concept study published in Biomimetics, the researchers tested their fibers as scaffolds for live cells.Their findings suggest the fibers—known as "fiber robots"—could ...