From the diaphragm to the pelvic floor, scientists say improving your core strength can protect your spine and help you move with ease into older age. Exercises like the plank train the body’s full ...

Researchers in South Korea have built an artificial muscle that can lift approximately 4,000 times its own weight. They say it can be used in future humanoid robots. A key breakthrough with the muscle ...

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC) will host Brian Glancy, a senior investigator in the Muscle Energetics Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung ...

Danielle “Nellie” Bruns, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming’s Department of Zoology and Physiology, has received a five-year, $1.78 million research grant from the National Institutes ...

aDepartment of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China bInstitute of Brain and Cognitive ...

The film explores the muscular system of the human body, detailing the roles and functions of the three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal muscles, which are voluntary and work ...

The film discusses the human skeleton and muscles through the perspective of a college student explaining to his younger brother. It covers the structure and function of bones, including their ...

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged from ...

If you're one of the 13% of American adults who has taken a GLP-1 drug for weight loss, you may know that while fat seemingly melts away, so too does muscle. And if you're not one for weights, or have ...

Moderate twitching of your eyelids (also known as myokymia) is common and can be caused by several conditions. We will describe some of the conditions that could lead to myokymia, its symptoms, and ...

The striated muscle Z‐line, a multiprotein complex at the boundary between sarcomeres, plays an integral role in maintaining striated muscle structure and function. Multiple Z‐line‐associated proteins ...