Researchers at the University of Houston are pushing the boundaries of biomedical innovation with a discovery that could ...

Researchers at the University of Houston are pushing the boundaries of biomedical innovation with a discovery that could ...

Explore pancreatic cancer-induced cachexia and how blocking cellular pathways may reduce muscle wasting in affected patients.

The FDA has approved an adeno-associated virus 9 gene replacement therapy to treat individuals aged 2 years and older with spinal muscular atrophy and a confirmed mutation of the survival motor neuron ...

Today, muscle atrophy is often unavoidable when you can't move due to severe injury, old age or diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). However, Harvard ...

Loss of muscle mass, also called muscle wasting or atrophy, can happen gradually as part of getting older or more suddenly ...

The approval was supported by data from phase 3 STEER study, which enrolled patients with SMA who were treatment-naive and able to sit but never able to walk independently.

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 ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

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 ...