You may wonder how many muscles you actually have in your body, but you might not know that there are three different types of muscle.

Among the most impressive systems of the body is the musculoskeletal system. But how many muscles are in the human body?

These minuscule structures, about one hundred times smaller in diameter than an average human hair, work cooperatively to produce force during muscle contraction.

Among the most impressive systems of the body is the musculoskeletal system. But how many muscles are in the human body?

Human muscle cells come back from space, look aged Astronauts' muscles atrophy in space, but we can identify the genes involved.

Scientists have created tiny artificial human muscles that contract and respond to neural and electrical stimuli just like real muscles do, a new study reports. There's just one twist: The ...

A new study traces how our hips changed so our ancestors could walk on two legs. It identifies two precise changes during early development that reshaped the pelvis and set the stage for stable, ...

Detailed 3D images of embryos reveal that some muscles form and then vanish during early human development.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body.

You see, the blob was evolved from three lab-grown chunks of human tissue: a mini-brain, mini-spinal cord, and mini-muscle. Each individual component, churned to eerie humanoid perfection inside ...