Heart muscle cells grown from patient stem cells—known as human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes, or ...

Adult skeletal muscle is a tissue with a high capacity for regeneration due to the existence of stem cell population, termed ...

Two related studies published today in Nature Metabolism show that a specialized intracellular recycling ...

For years, people taking one of the world’s most common heart drugs have described the same nagging side effect: sore, aching ...

Muvon Therapeutics has linked its cell therapy to a 60% drop in stress incontinence episode frequency in a small phase 2 ...

Mice lacking the extracellular matrix protein tenascin-C showed a reduced ability to repair muscular damage compared to controls.

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and at Sun Yat-sen University have generated what they claim is the first comprehensive atlas of aging muscles in humans. The team applied single-cell ...

As we age, the muscles we rely on for daily activities tend to become less reliable. With enough decline, even normal ...

A new study explains how cholesterol-lowering medications can lead to muscle damage and identifies a possible approach to making these treatments safer. Statins have dramatically improved cardiovascul ...