Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...

Professor Xiaoyue Ni flexes her arm while wearing a prototype of the new tissue stiffness sensor. The device could underpin a wide array of medical applications such as the monitoring of wound healing ...