Drawing inspiration from the muscle protein titin, a group of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC; Vancouver, BC, Canada) has developed biomaterials that demonstrate some of the ...

E very time you throw darts or ride a bike or even work out, you’re engaging your muscle memory. New research from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences published in Science Advances shows our ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned ...

Muscle loss, or atrophy, due to inactivity is common after illness, injury, hospitalization or falls, and becomes increasingly frequent with aging.

Learn about how UT Austin physicists are using human muscles to design more efficiently designed robots. Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that mimicking human muscles ...

Muscle contraction is the tightening, shortening, or lengthening of muscles when you do some activity. It can happen when you hold or pick up something, or when you stretch or exercise with weights.

Charlotte Ganderton receives funding from Arthritis Australia, Physiotherapy Research Foundation, Swinburne University of Technology, National Institute of Circus Arts and La Trobe University.