Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Human muscle cells are large cells, with a diameter of up to 100 micrometers, or slightly larger than the width of a human hair, and they can grow up to 12 centimeters long (almost 5 inches).

Not just that, they also identified mechanisms the muscles use to combat aging. The result of their work is the first-ever cell atlas of aging human muscle, published today in Nature Ageing.

How muscle changes with aging and tries to fight its effects is now better understood at the cellular and molecular level ...

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and ...

But classical differentiation protocols to create these muscle cells are long, complex and difficult to reproduce. An advanced technique now allows human iPSCs to be converted into striated ...

The diversity of cells in the human body is mentioned. Using muscle cells as an example, it is then explained how cells are adapted to their function. A group of cells working together is defined ...

People who suffer from the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis experience muscle weakness that can affect any of the muscles we use to blink, smile or even move our body around.

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

What we do when we need large amount of muscles (meat)? Farm animals. What will large corporations do when they need human muscles at large scale? Grow it in a lab. Yeah, right. What we do when we ...