Within multicellular organisms, tissues are organized communities of cells that work together to carry out a specific function. The exact role of a tissue in an organism depends on what types of ...

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

Isotonic contractions – these occur when a muscle contracts and changes length and there are two types: Isotonic concentric contraction – this involves the muscle shortening. The origin and ...

The construction and implantation of functional penile corpora cavernosa in a rabbit model, resulting in successful copulation and impregnation, has been reported by Anthony Atala and colleagues ...

We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align ...

MIT engineers have made a breakthrough in this area—they’ve developed a method to grow muscle tissue that contracts in ...