Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts. Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos,... Read more
Represents an impressive development in the growing field of regenerative medicine An innovative strategy for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue using cells derived from the amniotic fluid... Read more
Researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute have effectively treated muscular dystrophy in mice using human stem cells derived from a new process that... Read more
Smart clothing that can camouflage itself against different backgrounds If you’ve ever watched a cephalopod such as a squid changing color, then you’ll know that it’s a pretty amazing proces... Read more
Stem cell science applications are almost unlimited Using human stem cells to tackle human health issues remains controversial in the United States, but a team of Dutch researchers ha... Read more
They are capable of delivering higher torque, require low currents instead of high “Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor,” writes a team of researchers... Read more
The yarns are reportedly simple and inexpensive to make We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of treating medical conditions using nanobots – tiny robots that wou... Read more
New treatments to combat the degeneration of muscle associated with muscular dystrophy or aging Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature mu... Read more
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have found a simple way to grow muscle tissue with real muscle structure in the laboratory. They found that the muscle cells automati... Read more
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered the biological mechanism behind age-related loss of muscle strength and identified a drug that may help reverse this process... Read more
In a move that gives cautious hope to the millions of people suffering some form of paralysis, a team of researchers from UCLA, Caltech and the University of Louisville has given a man rende... Read more