In an international study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a gene variant that controls the body's ...

Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common than previously thought. New research led by the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those ...

In a finding that opens the door to the development of targeted therapies for various muscle disorders, newly published research identifies key mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and growth of ...

New study reveals how influenza virus infiltrates heart tissue via specialised immune cells, triggering damaging interferon ...