September 26, 2024 by Duke-NUS Medical School Modifying DEAF1 levels can restore muscle function in aging or cachectic muscles by correcting imbalances in muscle stem cells. Credit: Tang Hong-Wen lab (using BioRender)With the global population aging rapidly, sarcopenia, a condition that affects millions of older adults and severely diminishes their quality of life, is emerging...
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Researchers reveal new insights on mechanism that could help treat muscle-related diseases
by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Investigators who previously developed a recipe for turning skin cells into primitive muscle-like cells that can be maintained indefinitely in the lab without losing the potential to become mature muscle have now uncovered how this recipe works and what molecular changes it triggers within cells. The research, which was...
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Muscle-building proteins hold clues to ALS, muscle degeneration
Toxic protein assemblies, or “amyloids,” long considered to be key drivers in many neuromuscular diseases, also play a beneficial role in the development of healthy muscle tissue, University of Colorado Boulder researchers have found. Physician-scientists and competitive runners Josh Wheeler left, and Thomas Vogler on the summit of Long’s Peak in Colorado. Credit: CU Boulder...