To measure the alignment of the muscle fibers within the tissues and whether they contracted in synchrony, the team's collaborators at Boston University developed a custom software that ...

Stimulating muscle fibers with magnets causes them to grow in the same direction, aligning muscle cells within tissue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University ...

STAMP revolutionizes muscle fiber alignment on hydrogels using 3D-printed stamps, enhancing soft robotics and tissue engineering with a cost-effective approach.

After printing the desired structure – taking into account the fiber alignment – it was found that the cardiomyocytes (the cells responsible for carrying the contractile signal in the heart ...

The resultant bioengineered muscle fiber constructs showed mechanical stiffness similar to that of muscle tissues and exhibited enhanced muscle differentiation and elongated muscle alignment in vitro.

Functional Skeletal Muscle Regeneration with Thermally Drawn Porous Fibers and Reprogrammed Muscle Progenitors for Volumetric Muscle Injury. Advanced Materials, 2021; 2007946 DOI: 10.1002/adma ...

Muscle fiber type didn’t have any impact on how much muscle size (as measured with a full-body MRI) or strength increased. The subjects did get bigger muscles, with overall gains ranging from 3 ...