Before testing new therapies in animals, researchers now have a more efficient starting point—lab-grown canine muscle cells ...

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle ...

The top row of photos show a microscopic view of healthy muscle fibers stained to reveal a variety of irregularities, while the bottom row shows the same but for muscle fibers afflicted by the disease ...