A soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumor that starts in soft tissue such as muscle, deep skin tissues, cartilage, or fat. It often occurs as a lump in the arm, although it can happen anywhere.

Further, this led to less MEF2C being found in the skeletal muscle tissue, potentially causing shortened and dysfunctional muscle fibers. While it was known that muscle formation is upset in cerebral ...

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 a way ...

“When you strength train, the adaptations occurring in your nervous system and muscle tissues are occurring in the rest periods, not during the exercise,” explains O’Leary. “So you need to ...

A team led by MIT's tissue engineering professor Ritu Raman thinks it’s found a way to build those muscles by growing a thin, single-layer sheet of skeletal muscle cells designed to mimic the muscle ...

Obesity due to excessive deposition of lipids in adipose tissue (AT) has become a global epidemic ... Non-AT such as skeletal muscle, which has a comparatively high capacity for fatty acid oxidation ...

Finally, we compared acute and chronic MPL response in muscle with liver. The comparison revealed systematic response differences between the two tissues, notably that muscle appears more prone to ...