Physical activity maybe support both muscles and neurons in a feedback loop. A new study proves just this — with a biomolecular soup of synthetic innervated muscle tissue.

Letter Published: 21 September 1963 Formation of Extra Nerve-muscle Junctions in Innervated Muscle R. MILEDI Nature 199, 1191–1192 (1963) Cite this article ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 94, No. 6 (Mar. 18, 1997), pp. 2654-2659 (6 pages) Two factors secreted from the nerve terminal, agrin and ...

The key to recovering from traumatic nerve injuries, like those sustained in motor vehicle accidents or gunshot wounds, may be a gene named for the land of everlasting youth in Irish folklore. In a ...

Compared to mice that did not receive doxycycline, the mice with NANOG expression showed an increase in muscle development, nerve development and the synaptic connections between muscles and nerves.