While sitting still at your desk or watching TV, you sense a feeling of muscular discomfort in your arm or leg. It’s not quite a charley horse, but you can see your skin pulsating involuntarily, as if ...

Winter's allure of cozy indoors can weaken bones and muscles, especially for seniors. Reduced activity leads to muscle ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

Cancer cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome characterized by the ongoing loss of skeletal muscle mass, with or without fat loss, that cannot be reversed entirely by conventional nutritional ...

Isabelle Tate, who played a supporting role in the premiere of 9-1-1: Nashville, died from a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth ...