New study reveals how influenza virus infiltrates heart tissue via specialised immune cells, triggering damaging interferon ...

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

In a finding that opens the door to the development of targeted therapies for various muscle disorders, newly published research identifies key mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and growth of ...

Researchers have investigated the effect of increased cell temperature on the contractility of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle by heating the muscle proteins using advanced microscopical techniques ...

UC labs are developing new treatments that don’t just prevent damage from getting worse, but — for the first time in medical ...

As people age, muscles naturally lose mass and strength, a condition known as sarcopenia. The decline can make everyday ...

“Our findings suggest that hibernating animals do not simply tolerate muscle damage during winter. Instead, they actively suppress muscle repair in a controlled and reversible way,” Miyazaki explains.

You’re relaxing on the sofa when suddenly your eyelid starts twitching. Or perhaps it’s a muscle in your arm, your leg, or your foot that begins to spasm – sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes for ...