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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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Health & Medicine
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 09, 2017
Cardiology
While studying the formation of the kidney, researchers realized that a gene they had deleted to examine the effect of i
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 07, 2017
Technology
Exploring certain parts of the ocean to better understand the wildlife that inhabits them can be troublesome, especially
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 02, 2017
Neuroscience
Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) is a rare brain disorder and can be devastating to families.
...
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Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 21, 2017
Health & Medicine
Metoprolol is a classic drug for everything heart-related: preventing chest pain, lowering high blood pressure, and redu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 19, 2017
Health & Medicine
A shortage of zinc, an essential mineral, could be connected to the risk of heart disease. Recent study results have sho
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 18, 2017
Cardiology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 14, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers at the University of Maryland figured out why some Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections become invasive, while o
...
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Kerry Evans
APR 12, 2017
Microbiology
I just got a postcard in the mail from my veterinarian. They say it’s time for my dog to get her rabies vaccinatio
...
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Kerry Evans
APR 11, 2017
Cardiology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 08, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Any person curious about their personal genetic predisposition to 10 relatively well-known diseases can now do it in the
...
APR 07, 2017
Immunology
It is uncertain what precisely causes myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but it is definitely
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 05, 2017
Immunology
A parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi causes one of five diseases designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 31, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
MAR 30, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 27, 2017
Cardiology
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...
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Kara Marker
MAR 26, 2017
Cancer
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...
MAR 22, 2017
Cardiology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 21, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Nature has given people a rich resource of materials we can use for myriad purposes, and humans have turned to nature fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2017
Health & Medicine
The active ingredient in several types of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) may be protective of heart hea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 11, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been known that a natural compound called resveratrol is likely beneficial to human health; new research has adde
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 10, 2017
Cancer
The circulatory system in the body is what carries oxygen to muscles, nutrients to organs, and works to essentially get&
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 07, 2017
Cardiology
The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now, a new 3D organ-on-a-chip can mimic t
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The International Space Station has been a busy place for astronauts these last couple of weeks. It was visited by more
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard