These cells fuse to form new muscle fibers, a process essential for muscle repair and growth. However, exposure to microgravity, as experienced during space travel, significantly hinders this ...

But in the near-zero gravity of space, leg muscles suddenly have little to do ... they detected lower expression of three chemokines that promote muscle growth in addition to coordinating immune cell ...

What do heart muscle cells, NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission, and the International Space Station have in common? They're all ...

To this end, human vascular smooth muscle cells cultured in microgravity and aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were subjected to a transcriptomic analysis to determine the mechanisms ...

The first clue about the possible connection between brain and muscle cells came when Janelia scientists noticed something strange about the endoplasmic reticulum, or ER -- the membranous sheets ...

Jumping may protect astronauts’ knee cartilage from microgravity damage. Studies on mice show it increases bone density.

Tumor evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space Molecular ... for epithelial cells (Pan-Cytokeratin, red), myoepithelial and fibroblasts (Smooth Muscle Actin, white), and ...

Muscle cells are full of long protein filaments that ... They don't have a nucleus, allowing more space to carry oxygen. They are a flat disc shape with dips on both sides (biconcave) which ...