Skeletal tissue: Skeletal muscles control the tendons, ligaments, and bones of the musculoskeletal system. They are attached to the bones via tendons that can be found everywhere in the body.

Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts ...

“In addition to making new muscle, the stem cells stay in the tissue, where they sustain the effect of the PGE2 and instil the muscle with further capacity to regenerate,” he said.

The team is going beyond simply mimicking muscles here, however. Researchers at the school are using live muscle tissue in tandem with synthetic robot parts for a classification of robots known as ...

Vlad Zaha, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, co-led the study with Dr. Sadek. "This study found evidence of regeneration in the parts of the heart that would be considered ...

Although the earlier work by Dr. Helen Blau and her colleagues made it clear that 15-PGDH is integral to the degeneration of muscle tissue seen in older adults, the exact mechanisms surrounding ...

ENGINEERING MUSCLE: Researchers are also looking to see if they can engineer tissue that resembles muscle to repair small injuries in the body. They take biopsies from skeletal muscles and culture ...

Zooming in on muscle cells Date: March 25, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Summary: An international team has produced the first high-resolution 3D image of the sarcomere ...