Our muscles power us -- from the tissue that pumps blood from our heart to the tiny fibers that give us goosebumps. How ...

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

As you bite into a crisp apple, your jaw muscle contracts, allowing you to grind the fruit between your teeth. When you climb a flight of stairs, your gluteus maximus (or "glutes") push your body ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- Researchers at Stanford have invented a new way to look at muscles in the human body and they're hoping that it could help lead to break throughs in some of the most ...

Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials. While we are pretty good at making the non-biological parts work, ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival. The little muscles that enable ...

Dominic D'Agostino, an associate professor and physiologist at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, ...