The future of weight loss could look like this. Inject your muscles with a compound that helps them burn more calories than usual and then do your daily chores to shed those extra pounds. That's the ...

The start of any new gene therapy trial is an exciting and nervous time. But for the participants and doctors involved in the recently launched trial for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) at Columbus ...

In news that seems like it just might lead to a strange new superhero, Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with an injection of, well, bear serum. The secret, according ...

When NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel returned to earth after 197 days in space, he was in remarkably good health. But as he took his first shaky steps back under the weight of Earth’s gravity, he ...

Background OnabotulinumtoxinA has demonstrated significant benefit in adult focal spasticity. This study reviews the injection patterns (i.e., muscle distribution, dosing) of onabotulinumtoxinA for ...

Researchers in Canada have evaluated the effect of the implantation of donor muscle precursor cells (MPCs) on the expression of dystrophin in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In nine ...

Spasticity, a phenomenon associated with the upper motor neuron syndrome, was defined by James W. Lance as "a motor disorder characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflex ...