Sports medicine & Kinesiology

New lab model simulates effects of exercise on muscles

A team of researchers at Tohoku University have developed a simple lab-based system for growing human muscle cells that are capable of vigorously contracting. The team used the model, which was described in the journal Scientific ...

Oncology & Cancer

Mechanistic insight into immortal cells could speed clinical use

The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely - known as conditional reprogramming - has been deciphered and reported in the February 25th issue of PLOS ONE. Researchers ...

Oncology & Cancer

New discovery expected to significantly change biomedical research

In a major step that could revolutionize biomedical research, scientists have discovered a way to keep normal cells as well as tumor cells taken from an individual cancer patient alive in the laboratory — which previously ...