Researchers uncover how Plexin A and Semaphorin 1b regulate collective cell migration in fruit fly testes, offering insights ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Fascia is a spongy connective tissue that encapsulates all of your skeletal muscle. Due to overuse of muscles and acute ...

This study introduces a valuable spring-bead model for epithelial cell layers, designed to improve previous cell-resolved approaches and to understand the connection between the biophysics of ...

Skipping post-workout cool-downs may silently damage your heart, muscles, hormones, and recovery systems without you ...

More information: Wei-Wei Ren et al, MYO18B promotes lysosomal exocytosis by facilitating focal adhesion maturation, Journal of Cell Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202407068 ...

What A Muscle Scraping Session Looks And Feels Like If the red marks people show on social media from muscle scraping make you nervous to try it, don’t worry—it’s not as intense as it looks.

In fact, recent studies, including a 2024 test tube investigation and a 2020 animal study, show that exercise can improve muscle healing and reduce the risk of adhesion and fibrosis development.

The biggest difference is that muscle and joint pain worsens as you keep moving, while fascia pain gets better with movement and heat. Fascia adhesions can be temporarily fixed, but they can also ...

Microcantilever platforms are functional models for studying skeletal muscle force dynamics in vitro. However, the contractile force generated by the myotubes can cause them to detach from the ...