Researchers have developed a biohybrid hand, known as MuMuTAs, using bundles of lab-grown muscle tissue. This innovative ...

The basic physiological principles of muscle contraction are well established: when muscle cells are excited, myosin heads in the sarcomere thick filaments bind to actin thin filaments and undergo a ...

Much like tongues that understand “sweet” taste, our hearts too can sense sweeteners, according a study on Saturday, that ...

To be successfully deployed on a large-scale and in a wide range of real-world settings, robots should be able to rapidly ...

A sprain is an injury to a ligament, whereas a strain involves damage to a muscle or tendon when these tissues are stretched or torn. A muscle spasm, or cramp, is a sudden, involuntary contraction of ...

Researchers looked at the effects of zapping muscles with neuromuscular electrical stimulation or NMES while weightlifting.

There's not much research specifically surrounding the muscle pump and its contribution to muscle growth. Still, there's a ...

But take a look at your body under a microscope, and you’ll see that your working muscles are actually contracting in completely different ways depending on the phase of the exercise you’re in ...

The key players: concentric, eccentric, and isometric muscle contractions. Most exercises and everyday actions (think: walking, picking up and holding your groceries) involve a mixture of ...

A number of players, including Arsenal's Kai Havertz and Chelsea's Nicholas Jackson, have suffered hamstring injuries - how do they happen?

These are high-intensity activities that require the body to absorb a lot of impact when landing on the ground or catching ...