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Skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscles are organs of the vertebrate muscular system that are mostly attached by tendons to bones of the skeleton. The muscle cells of of skeletal muscles are much longer than in other types of muscle tissue, and are sometimes known as muscle fibers. Credit: Shutterstock
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FEB 17, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Currently, adults over 65 are an increasingly growing segment in many countries. In the United States, the elderly popul
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
FEB 11, 2019
Neuroscience
Apparently, the spinal cord has been pretty underrated. It pops up when neuroscience students learn about basic reflexes
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
JAN 21, 2019
Cardiology
It is widely accepted that youth sports are good for children. When asked why they've enrolled their children into s
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
JAN 20, 2019
Cardiology
We know that exercise is a vital component of a healthy life. But how can we set up our children to be healthy, fit indi
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
DEC 08, 2018
Cardiology
We have all heard that exercise is good for us, particularly for the heart, but many don’t understand precisely ho
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
NOV 25, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
A downside to aging is that the skeletal muscles lose their ability to heal after muscle injury. However, a recent resea
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
NOV 22, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
Tamoxifen is currently a drug used in the treatment of breast cancer, and has been used in patients for many years. Now,
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
JUN 06, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
The Governor's Chair for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Jeremy Smith, and the dire
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAY 09, 2018
Cardiology
During a process called angiogenesis, new blood vessels form as cells divide continuously to create new layers of tissue
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 02, 2018
Cancer
Breast cancer patients that have low muscle mass were shown in a recent study to have higher mortality than patients wit
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
MAR 17, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
Before new drugs are tested in humans, researchers have to ensure that they are both effective and safe. Animal models o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 26, 2018
Cardiology
A genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle degeneration is mostly visible because of the toll it takes on young p
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 09, 2018
Cardiology
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by defects in a gene necessary for strong muscle fibers, including the muscl
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 01, 2018
Cardiology
When clusters of a particular molecule form in the heart muscle tissue, the heart struggles to function normally. While
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 15, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Muscle stem cells have distinct responses after different events that stimulate self-renewal.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Heat waves can be very dangerous, especially to vulnerable groups of the population. They are also on the rise worldwide
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 05, 2017
Cardiology
When it comes to matters of the heart, women have the upper hand - heart health, that is. Where does this advantage come
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 28, 2017
Cardiology
First discovered in 1979, natriuretic peptides (NPs) play a variety of roles in the body, some not yet understood. But a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
The most important tools fish possess for ocean navigation are its fins. These appendages help a fish maintain stability
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 06, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
This new data on a rare disease could help diagnose the disorder in new patients, and has led researchers to test new tr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2017
Plants & Animals
Chimpanzees seem to have a reputation for being super strong when compared to humans of the same size, and now a study i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 11, 2017
Videos
Floating inside of the cytoplasm are mitochondria, the proverbial "powerhouse of the cell." These organelles also carry
...
JUN 05, 2017
Health & Medicine
Why can’t cardiac tissue repair itself? Maybe if Baylor College of Medicine scientists can figure it out, they can
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s generally atypical for birds of flight to lose their ability to soar through the air, so we have very little
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard