Cell sheets are guided to form anchored, scaffold-free constructs for in vitro modeling by providing pillars that act as anchors for otherwise anchorless cell sheets. Credit: Advanced Functional ...

B cells are white blood cells that form a core part of the body's adaptive immune system, enabling it to recognize specific ...

Researchers have made significant strides in biomaterial technology and rehabilitation medicine. They've developed a novel approach to healing muscle injury by employing 'injectable tissue prosthesis' ...

Smart exercise choices and adequate nutrition will help preserve muscle and the metabolic benefits that come with it ...

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, ...

Muscle atrophy affects millions of people worldwide, striking when least expected during periods of inactivity, illness, or aging. This natural process of muscle tissue breakdown can happen ...

Intense muscle pain, stiffness, and tenderness—delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) to insiders—is a common post-workout ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend 30 days at the International Space Station report evidence that the low gravity conditions in ...