Researchers have made strides creating strong, long-lasting imitation muscle as science fiction slowly evolves into fact.

Experiments in lab-grown human muscle cells confirmed the role of these ... Bone-attached muscles have many purposes, moving, sustaining body posture, maintaining body temperature, and storing ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

It’s made when muscles are damaged. They also have higher levels of serum aldolase, which is made when your body breaks down sugar into energy. Heart monitoring. An electrocardiogram may be done ...

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Sarcopenia is the gradual loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and functioning. It typically begins at some point in our ...

With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type. It’s caused by flaws in the gene that controls how the body keeps muscles healthy. The disease almost always affects boys, and symptoms ...