A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

The most autofluorescent human muscle reserve cells are those that strongly express the transcription factor Pax7, an indicator of a state of deep quiescence. It is precisely these most "dormant" ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered how exercise helps aging muscles regain their ability to repair ...

In work published in Nature Biotechnology, Rubin and his research group turned to 3D cell culture to take on the problem of generating sufficient satellite cells for regenerative therapies. 2 ...

Sarcopenia—reduced muscle mass, strength, and function—is often associated with aging and frequently impacts quality of life in the elderly. Individuals with sarcopenia are also prone to further ...

Just like a house, cells need cleaning. In autophagy, a cellular form of housekeeping, debris is collected, broken down, and ...

Stem cells that live in the muscle impart its ability to regenerate. After an injury, muscle stem cells activate and must expand in number to repair and make new muscle (marked by dystrophin in white) ...

Cutting calories has long been linked to longer life in lab animals, but scientists are now tracing that effect down to the ...