Your abdominal muscles surround your trunk between the rib cage and pelvis and keep your abdominal organs safe. Your core abdominal muscles also support your trunk and allow movements while keeping ...

Our bodies move by contracting the muscles (skeletal muscles) that are attached along the skeleton. For example, when we raise our arms, the deltoid muscle covering the entire shoulder and the ...

In recent years, the concept of caring for one’s fascia — the tough, flexible tissue that surrounds and connects muscles, bones and organs like cling wrap — has permeated fitness and wellness culture.

Some parts of the human body are in a state of constant regeneration. Liver cells, for example, are replaced every 300 to 500 days. Fingernails grow every day. But this aptitude rapidly declines when ...

Screening of drug candidates and other compounds on human and animal muscle organs, including 3D human skeletal muscle, iPSC-derived systems, and neuromuscular junction models. We provide a ...

The misconception that muscle can be lean or bulky lies in its appearance. “When people (say ‘lean’), they’re usually ...

Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which muscle damage—often caused by drug intake—can lead to impaired kidney function and ...

Scientists studied the internal anatomy that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of Brazilian cave insects. By Jack Tamisiea The penis has a variety of peculiar shapes and sizes: the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Only recently have researchers begun to pay much attention to fascia, but the connective tissue may hold clues to a wide array of diseases including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ...