Proper regulation of these rates is essential to tissue maintenance and repair. The spatial organization of the cells that form a tissue is also central to the tissue's function and survival.

Now, MIT engineers have taken a major step toward developing robots that replace rigid gears with something much softer – ...

Figure 2: High magnification of one Adult Drosophila muscle showing organization of muscle fibers ... characterized by the presence of nemaline bodies in the affected muscle tissue, muscle weakness, ...

These tissues, like muscles, tendons, connective tissue, and nervous tissue, exhibit organized cellular arrangements. This ...

This pattern is formed by a series of basic units called sarcomeres that are arranged in a stacked pattern throughout muscle tissue (Figure 1). There can be thousands of sarcomeres within a single ...

The flexibility of biohybrid robots could allow them to squeeze and twist through areas that are too small or complex.

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...