Recently, a more sophisticated understanding of how water interacts with both skin cells and muscle tissue has emerged, revealing striking parallels between optimal hydration for external ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – almost like real, living muscle tissue. In other words, they have found ...

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

the risk of necrosis in thick muscle tissues, and the challenge of integrating biological actuators with artificial structures,” says Shoji Takeuchi, a professor at the Tokyo University ...

These tissues were then attached to a 3D-printed plastic hand having moveable joints and measuring about 18 cm (7 in) long. "Our key achievement was developing the MuMuTAs," said Shoji Takeuchi ...

The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough strength to contract. These multiple muscle tissue actuators (MuMuTAs), created ...

Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, is a type of muscle tissue that forms the heart. It contracts and releases involuntarily and keeps the heart pumping blood around the body. The human body ...

Image Credit: KateStudio / Shutterstock A recent study published in the European Heart Journal examined the role of skeletal muscle fat infiltration, termed intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT), in ...

Soft tissue injuries typically describe damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments. They may lead to pain, swelling, and restricted mobility and can occur for many reasons. Some potential causes ...

More information: Yuzhu Li et al, Virtual histological staining of unlabeled autopsy tissue, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46077-2 ...

They found that exercise lowered mitochondrial function in the long COVID sufferers – indicating that as well as having a reduced capacity for exercise, their muscle tissue had acquired damage ...