For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle ...

Accomplishing perhaps a world first, researchers at Columbia University and the UChicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory have mapped the full-body muscular activity of an animal while it was ...

It is hard to spit all of that out, let alone understand it. But the message was strong – both your heart and your skeletal-muscle system benefit greatly from lifelong exercise.

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now discovered evidence in mice that skeletal muscles help to keep the immune system functional in chronic diseases.

If you've ever wondered why specific exercises feel way tougher even when the weight isn't massive, science has some answers. It all comes down to how your body ...

Current medical imaging technology misses important data regarding muscle contraction, including the ways in which a muscle's shape changes when it contracts, how the muscle bulges, and how its ...

The immune system's macrophage cells are critical to growing muscle tissues in a lab, say the biomedical engineers who earlier reported the world's first self-healing lab-grown muscles. The ...

Discover why rest days fuel muscle growth and prevent burnout. Learn how strategic recovery boosts performance, stamina, and long-term fitness.

There may be new hope for people who suffer from involuntary muscle tremors. Scientists are developing a partially implanted system that stimulates muscles in order to stop their problematic ...

New research in mice suggests that strong skeletal muscles can help support the immune system. Mice with more muscle mass fought off infection better.