When robots are built with biological materials, they have the potential to achieve remarkable behaviors typically only seen ...

A new study from Umeå University, Sweden, shows that the body's muscles sense mechanical pressure. This new discovery has important implications for movement neuroscience and may improve the design of ...

The mechanism of skeletal muscle contraction is a process that relies on calcium signaling. However, the physiological role of calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) through the ryanodine receptor ...

Balazs says that the result is “a material that can take in a chemical and turn it into mechanical work, like eating a ...

UW-Madison researchers developed a simple, noninvasive wearable device that enables them to measure tendon tension while a person is engaging in activities like walking or running. Here, the device is ...

83 percent of children in small study experienced atrophy in at least one muscle group Children with life-threatening respiratory failure who require mechanical ventilation in a pediatric intensive ...