Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetically inherited disorder that causes muscle weakness. Adults can get spinal muscular atrophy, but it’s rare in adults and progresses slowly. It doesn’t typically ...

What is SMA? The rare genetic condition that Jesy Nelson’s twins have - Former Little Mix star revealed her twin daughters had been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1 ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Researchers have identified a protein that’s critical to the development of skeletal muscle mass and strength and the tissue’s ability to metabolize glucose. They say their findings may lead to ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disease affecting specialized nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). It can ...

Most of us have imagined how free it would feel to float around, like an astronaut, in conditions of reduced gravity. But have you ever considered what the effects of reduced gravity might have on ...

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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 ...

He explains that metformin helps muscle cells better remodel and repair tissue during periods of recovery after inactivity. “Our real goal is to have patients maintain their muscle mass and function ...