The muscular system works in conjunction with the skeleton to produce movement of the limbs and body. Ligaments and tendons are two main types of connective tissues that help the muscular-skeletal ...

For example, your elbow joint has two muscles that move your forearm up or down. These are the biceps on the front of the upper arm and the triceps on the back of the upper arm: to raise the ...

The first 'blueprint' of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of ...

In a flurry of announcements, the formation of the human skeleton and the early immune system have also been mapped out in detail. The novel insight is akin to moving from the maps of the 15th ...

such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may soon benefit from novel stem cell therapies. A study has demonstrated how new skeletal muscle tissues can be grown from stem cells derived from the human ...