An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Researchers have discovered a mechanism in our cells that is essential to energy production in the muscles. The discovery may lead to new treatment for disorders affecting the muscles, like diabetes, ...

The type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) is an important calcium release channel in skeletal muscles essential for muscle contraction. It mediates calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, a ...

Neuromuscular disorders such as congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), congenital myopathy (CM) and congenital myasthenic ...

Patients with degenerative diseases that attack skeletal muscle tissues, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may soon benefit from novel stem cell therapies. A study has demonstrated how new skeletal ...

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

Scientists at the University of Cincinnati and colleagues report that a regulatory protein found in skeletal muscle fiber may play an important role in the body’s fight or flight response when ...

Muscle weakness may be due to a chronic condition or an infection. Conditions that can weaken muscles include Addison’s disease, anemia, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and more. Muscle weakness is a lack of ...

Panel A shows the microscopic myoarchitecture of the circular and longitudinal muscle layers of the lower esophageal sphincter and stomach. The circular muscle fibers of the esophagus cross each other ...

A new study, published in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, has found that nearly half of men, and one in five women, transgender and gender ...

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it? Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have started to tackle these questions by ...

Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a psychopathological condition — which means that it affects your thoughts and behaviors in problematic ways. People with muscle dysmorphia are obsessively concerned with ...