Muscle cells were once thought to be the smallest units that experienced contraction. But new research has suggested that smaller sections of muscles cells can experience localized calcium signaling ...

IT has been previously reported that incubation of egg lecithin with human plasma produces on the guinea-pig ileum a slow contraction which is, in many respects, indistinguishable from the slow ...

In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses, biochemical signals and ...

In a new study published this week in <i>Nature Biotechnology</i>, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) report that by identifying and mimicking important developmental cues, they ...