Neuroscience
How motor neurons develop into subtypes that activate different muscles
Motor neurons play a vital role in movement, linking the central nervous system with different muscles in the body.
Feb 17, 2022
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News tagged with muscle development
Neuroscience
Food for thought: Eating soft foods may alter the brain's control of chewing
Incoming sensory information can affect the brain's structure, which may in turn affect the body's motor output. However, the specifics of this process are not always well understood. In a recent study published in Scientific ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Cardiology
Artificial aorta can reduce patients' blood pressure
Engineers at EPFL's Center for Artificial Muscles have developed a silicone aorta that can reduce how hard patients' hearts have to pump. Their breakthrough could offer a promising alternative to heart transplants.
Feb 3, 2021
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Medical research
Generation of three-dimensional heart organoids
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) use mouse embryonic stem cells to engineer three-dimensional functional heart organoids resembling the developing heart
Sep 16, 2020
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Medical research
Scientists create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA has developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap of how human skeletal muscle develops, including ...
May 11, 2020
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Medical research
Using CRISPR to find muscular dystrophy treatments
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology is best known for its potential role in correcting genetic diseases. But it can also be used as a tool to find genes that act as supporting players, making the disease better or worse. ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Medical research
Tracking titin in real time
Using new high-resolution imaging techniques, MDC researchers and colleagues have tracked titin, the body's largest protein, in real time throughout its entire lifecycle. The method and results could provide new insight into ...
Dec 13, 2019
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Medical research
Compound identified that improves heart function in rats
Heart attack survivors may think the worst is behind them. But many later develop heart failure, a progressive disease marked by shortness of breath and swelling in the legs. Symptoms can prevent patients from working, exercising—even ...
Jan 28, 2019
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Medical research
Inhibiting NF-kB improves heart function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating genetic disease that impairs cardiac and skeletal muscle development. People with DMD gradually lose ambulation in childhood, acquire respiratory and heart failure in young ...
Aug 30, 2018
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Medical research
Polarized cells give the heart its fully developed form
When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at MDC have now described how it forms itself into a its characteristic S-shape and how the ventricles ...
Jun 4, 2018
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