More than two years after the Government committed to adding SMA to newborn testing, families are still waiting ...

The mother of a four-year-old boy with a rare muscle disease says screening newborn babies for the condition could "save ...

Cachexia is a metabolic disorder that causes uncontrolled weight loss and muscle wasting in chronic diseases and cancer.

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

Singer Jesy Nelson has opened up sharing that her twin daughters have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, but what is the condition?

Muscle atrophy is a prevalent condition in today's societies, but many of the roles that mitochondria play in the process remain unclear. In a recent study, researchers investigated how muscle atrophy ...

With the intensification of global population aging, muscle atrophy, characterized by the loss of muscle mass and function, has become an important health issue affecting the elderly. Researchers have ...

Nelson's twin daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 1 ...

The breakup news comes just two weeks after Nelson shared her twin daughters' diagnoses.