Researchers have investigated the effect of increased cell temperature on the contractility of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle by heating the muscle proteins using advanced microscopical techniques ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes dysfunction of muscle cells that help move blood through the circulatory system, a ...

Aisha Al-Janabi, our Assistant Editor, explores recent cardiovascular disease research, including developing heart organoids with vascular cells, launching cardiac chips to the International Space ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Yingying Fu, Zhen Qi, Zhanguang Zuo, Spencer Chiang, An Ouyang, Glory Gao, Shuge Guan, Jessie Chen, Rosanna Zhang, and Cheng Wang. Existing ...

Hierarchical structure of muscle and activation of thin filaments. In both skeletal and cardiac muscles under a relaxed state, a low intracellular calcium ion concentration is maintained and the ...