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 ...

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is a well-studied but still somewhat misunderstood phenomenon in exercise science. It ...

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 ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Muscle is muscle. Despite what many fitness influencers may have you believe, there’s no such thing as "lean muscle" or "bulk muscle." It’s all made from the same stuff.