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 ...

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 ...

He became surer still when he discovered that the direction of this bias seemed to vary by cell type. “Some of them are clockwise and some are counterclockwise,” he says. Like the mouse myoblasts, ...

A study has demonstrated how new skeletal muscle tissues can be grown from stem cells derived from the human placenta. The results give insights into the role of a protein that is crucial for ...

transforming into all the 200 or so kinds of cells that constitute a human body. Liver cells. Brain cells. Skin, bone, and nerve. The dream is to launch a medical revolution in which ailing organs ...

The team leveraged 3D printing and muscle cells derived from humans and mice to grow an artificial structure that pulls concentrically and radially, similar to how the human iris dilates and ...