Researchers developed a way to help people with amputation or paralysis regain limb control. Their optogenetic technique could offer more precise control over muscle contraction, along with a dramatic ...

A major new international study led by Curtin University has found diabetes risk is about more than body weight or obesity, ...

A drug that boosts strength in injured or aging mice restores connections between nerves and muscle and suggests ways to combat weakness in humans due to aging, injury or disease. A small molecule ...

Now that summer's here, the pressure is on to sculpt that beach-ready body—but that doesn't mean you need to live at the gym. New research from Florida Atlantic University shows that when it comes to ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD big guys at the gym tossing around the word "hypertrophy" when they talk about ...

Getting ripped takes effort. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson didn’t get to look the way he does by sitting on the sofa with a packet of Doritos propped up on his pecs. It took years of sweat, pain and ...

Using AI, researchers measured muscles, fat, bones and organs in the upper body, focusing particularly on muscles in the chest and back.