There are hundreds of individually-named skeletal muscles in the human body, each positioned in a specific place to allow the body to move in countless different ways. When muscles lose function due atrophy or injury, motor function decreases, and it can diminish an individual’s quality of life. A new paper published in EMBO Molecular Medicinedescribes a study that used stem cells to grow leg muscle tissue in a dish, which proved to be functional after it was grafted into a mouse. In the future, this technique could be applied to humans, providing tissue transplants to treat muscular dystrophy or a number of other muscle-related diseases.
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