Every movement we make, whether walking, speaking or even breathing, depends on the health of our muscles and nerves.

Accomplishing perhaps a world first, researchers at Columbia University and the UChicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory have mapped the full-body muscular activity of an animal while it was ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

It’s a promise that has been around for nearly as long as Pilates itself: Through highly controlled, low-intensity resistance ...

Researchers at the Universities of Maynooth and Bonn discover a new connection in muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common muscle disease in children and is passed on by ...

Columbia University will award the 2025 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Kevin Campbell, Louis Kunkel, and Eric Olson for discoveries that revealed the biological causes of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

Mind-body coach and CNN contributor Dana Santas tackles the first in a five-part series on the power of strength training to ...

Muscle function loss occurs when your muscles don’t work or move normally. Complete muscle function loss, or paralysis, involves being unable to contract your muscles normally. If your muscles lose ...

The powerful gene editing technology CRISPR is one small step closer to treating a human disease. In a new paper published in Science, researchers led by Eric Olson, professor and chair of molecular ...