iPSCs are reprogrammed from adult cells and offer the potential for patient-specific therapies. They can be programmed to become osteocytes (bones), chondrocytes (cartilage), myocytes (muscle), or ...

Its long-term use is well-known to have toxic effects on cardiac muscle cells. We present a biopsy-proven case of ... thus causing inhibition of phospholipases inside cardiac myocytes. This leads to ...

These miRNAs are mainly expressed in muscle tissues and appear to repress the ... For instance, miR-133 could decide the cell commitment between brown adipocytes and myocytes by targeting Prdm16, ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

Chemotherapeutic agents are often used to treat cancer. They combat tumor growth, but also have a number of undesirable side ...

Despite being mainly composed of terminally differentiated myocytes that cannot re-enter the cell cycle, the heart is not a postmitotic organ and maintains some capacity to form new parenchymal ...

"The latest findings highlight the potential of tissue patches derived from stem cells to treat heart failure, which remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide". Muscle patches made with ...

Researchers have made strides creating strong, long-lasting imitation muscle as science fiction slowly evolves into fact.