Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. MIT engineers have now found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual ...

Working out your muscles may help heal your nerves after injury, by encouraging those neurons to grow faster. In a new study of mouse cells, scientists found that both the biochemical and mechanical ...

After 21 days of this optical stimulation training, the mice showed a more-than 13-fold improvement in muscle contraction force. These findings are important as they show that affected muscles in an ...