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Muscle cells
Muscle cells have the specialized ability to expand and contract to produce bodily movement. There are three types of muscle cells: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. Skeletal muscle cells generate muscle movement. Cardiac muscle cells facilitate the movement of blood in and out of the hear. Smooth muscle cells control involuntary muscle movement in the body.
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JAN 10, 2018
Immunology
For the first time, scientists have been able to gather evidence for a new antibody-based drug to treat people infected
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 08, 2018
Immunology
The Zika virus is notorious for its deleterious effects on pregnancy, whether through causing miscarriages or birth defe
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 08, 2018
Cardiology
Energy production in heart cells, like all other cells, takes place in the mitochondria, the organelles famous for being
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 04, 2018
Technology
The Israeli biotech company SuperMeat plans to bring its chicken products to market within a few years.
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 28, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
We know that regular exercise is good for us, and now researchers have learned more about why vigorous activity can ease
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2017
Cardiology
Key differences between two cardiovascular conditions call for drugs with different therapeutic activity to successfully
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 19, 2017
Neuroscience
Huntington's disease is a devastating neurobiological illness that happens at the molecular level in the brain. The
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 16, 2017
Videos
The blood is filtered by the kidneys, which remove the toxins and wastes and then send them along to the bladder along w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Muscle stem cells have distinct responses after different events that stimulate self-renewal.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
There is a complicated relationship between stress and health; researchers have discovered a crucial link between stress
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2017
Cardiology
"High blood sugar levels are not only unhealthy for adults; they're unhealthy for developing fetuses," say
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 07, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has been hailed as revolutionary, but the technique came with some caveats. Now, it
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2017
Cardiology
One explanation for why heart failure develops goes all the way to the miniscule organelles inside individual cells. Fro
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 02, 2017
Cardiology
If human heart cells could regenerate the way salamander or zebrafish cells can, then perhaps cardiovascular disease wou
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 01, 2017
Cardiology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 29, 2017
Health & Medicine
Learn about the conditions that medical cannabis has been approved to treat in some states in the US.
Written By:
Loren DeVito
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
NOV 17, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new tool has been developed by Canon BioMedical that aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of a devastating dise
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2017
Cardiology
Duchenne muscular dystrophy - a rare, genetic, neuromuscular disease that primarily affects males - leads to degeneratio
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 15, 2017
Cardiology
For the first time, scientists have produced the “cardiac proteome,” a map of all of the tens of thousands o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 09, 2017
Cardiology
Blood clots are normally seen as something to be avoided, something with dangerous consequences such as heart attack, st
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 05, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Nusinersen may be a life-changer for patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2017
Cardiology
There’s a new explanation for why a unique type of heart failure doesn’t respond to traditional drugs used t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 17, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Following a heart attack, cells of the heart muscle tissue are in danger of damage and death, because the tissue is left
...
Written By:
Kara Marker