Often termed “bigorexia” in medical circles, muscle dysmorphia manifests as an overwhelming preoccupation with perceived inadequacies in muscularity. This condition drives affected individuals into ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

In a finding that opens the door to the development of targeted therapies for various muscle disorders, newly published research identifies key mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and growth of ...