Scientists at MIT have created a new kind of artificial muscle that can flex and move in multiple directions, much like real ...

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

"In science, structure is function," says Lippincott ... ladder-like ER structures: muscle tissue. In muscle cells, the ER and the plasma membrane – the outer membrane of the cell – meet ...

It was first discovered in skeletal muscle, where actin filaments ... Such networks allow cells to hold — and move — specialized shapes, such as the brush border of microvilli.

The results of the study were published in Circulation Research. The heartbeat is carried out by specialized heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes that can neither divide nor renew themselves.