Running is a spring-loaded sport—and no, I’m not just referring to the springy, carbon-plated super shoes that have swept the running world in recent years. Muscles and tendons themselves act like ...

After 30, nutrition becomes essential to protect facial firmness and help slow muscle loss in a natural, healthy way ...

How exactly does yoga improve flexibility? In the Mar 13 cover story of Cell, Columbia University biological sciences professor Julio Fernandez and team report the discovery of a new form of ...

A new form of mechanical memory that adjusts the elasticity of muscles to their history of stretching has been discovered. Using highly sensitive atomic force microscopes, the researchers detected a ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 11 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they have used artificial proteins to develop a solid biomaterial that very closely mimics the elasticity of human muscles.

Stanford University researchers just synthesized a material which, when tested, produced some pretty remarkable results—it’s super stretchy, self-healing, and responsive to an electrical field. These ...

In a landmark development, a group of researchers has cast artificial proteins into a new solid biomaterial that very closely mimics the elasticity of muscle. In a landmark development, a group of ...

According to new research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, there may be a way to stave off a type of heart failure by improving the elasticity of cardiac muscles.

To investigate the capacity of the myomeric muscles to actively change the stiffness of the body during bending, mid-caudal sections (spanning two to three intervertebral joints) of intact, ...

Almost a third of adults age 65 and older report difficulty walking just three city blocks. But a company called Superflex has raised $10 million to build a solution–and it doesn’t involve wheels.

Researchers have cast artificial proteins into a new solid biomaterial that very closely mimics the elasticity of muscle. The approach opens new avenues to creating solid biomaterials from smaller ...