Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in Japan have taken a major step forward in biohybrid robotics by developing a hand powered by lab-grown muscle tissue ...

Connective tissue cells can now be transformed into muscle stem cells without genetic engineering. This approach could prove relevant for therapeutic applications in patients with muscle diseases. In ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates into mice quickly, and for the first time, ...

Human muscle tissue which contracts realistically has been grown in a laboratory for the first time. It could allow researchers to test new drugs and study diseases outside of the human body.

These muscle cells were grown in a lab, but they are indistinguishable from what you grow in your body. They jump when shocked with electricity. They respond to drugs just the way cells in your ...

Skeletal muscle is one of the most abundant tissue types in the human body, but has proven difficult to produce in large quantities in the lab. Unlike other cell types, such as heart cells, neurons ...

This rare genetic disorder is due to the absence of a vital protein called dystrophin that helps the body maintain muscle cells, which results in rapid muscle degeneration and increasing muscle ...

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 ...

Human muscle tissue which contracts realistically has been grown in a laboratory for the first time. It could allow researchers to test new drugs and study diseases outside of the human body.