muscle fibers

Profilee Angela Dulhunty describes her research on the structure and function of proteins that make up skeletal and cardiac muscles.

This third filament involved in muscle function is often ignored in medical textbooks. Here's how it works.

Titin was discovered four decades ago, but some physiology textbooks fail to recognize the important role it plays in muscle contraction.

Selected Images of the Day from the-scientist.com

Meet some of the people featured in the September 2018 issue of The Scientist.

Researchers boosted levels of the dystrophin protein to nearly normal levels in a canine model of the disease.