In the leg are a number of bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels. These complex components work together to play crucial roles in the body. They also provide strength and articulation ...

Instead, his team used eight genetically distinct mouse strains to explore muscle loss across a diverse population. On Earth, leg muscles constantly bear ... through flesh generated scans of the inner ...

"While we are encouraged by the success of our work in growing a complete intact and functional mouse leg muscle we emphasize that a mouse muscle is very small and scaling up the process for ...

Or, Ng realized, they could simply do both. To increase their chances of success, and in hopes of learning more about fiber subtypes, Ng and his team started with mouse leg muscle tissue, as its ...

We first showed that the lesion caused by the surgical act induced only slight and transient modifications of muscle NMR signal. Mouse leg muscles were injected with a phosphate-buffered saline ...

A brief flash of blue light spurred formerly silent mouse ... to muscles. The team then implanted these light-responsive motor neurons into the thighs of mice, each with one paralyzed leg.