A protein called B cell lymphoma 6 could be key to maintaining healthy muscle mass and potentially could be used to combat ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

Chemotherapeutic agents are often used to treat cancer. They combat tumor growth, but also have a number of undesirable side effects. One of these is severe muscle wasting, known as ...

"The latest findings highlight the potential of tissue patches derived from stem cells to treat heart failure, which remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide". Muscle patches made with ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

Scientist Sarallah Rezazadeh from the Icahn School of Medicine explores the molecular mechanisms behind adult stem cells as ...

As the most important muscle in our body, any serious issues with our heart are considered critical and reason for ...

The ECM (extracellular matrix) provides the microenvironmental niche sensed by resident vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Aging and disease are associated with dramatic changes in ECM composition ...