If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

However, the new study shows that aging signals can travel through the bloodstream and impact cells in completely different ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

Abstract: Describes a closed-loop functional neuromuscular stimulation system that uses afferent neural activity from muscle spindle fibers as feedback for controlling position of the ankle joint.

Over 300 million people suffer from asthma, with many experiencing poor symptom control despite current medications. This highlights the need for novel therapeutics. Phospholipase Cβ (PLCβ), which ...

In this study, a pneumatic multi-pocket elastomer actuator for simulating tendon driven human muscle was designed and manufactured by hand. The actuator has the characteristics of a wide range of ...

To fill that gap, his team developed an intelligent, self-healing robotic muscle featuring a multi-layer architecture that enables the system to identify and locate damage, then initiate a self-repair ...

Identifying proteomic signatures of insulin resistance in fasting muscle offers insights for personalized type 2 diabetes therapies based on molecular profiles.

A robotic arm made from human tissue: Science advances toward living muscle prosthetics Laboratories in Barcelona and Tokyo are combining organic and artificial elements to create biological robots ...