Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend. Skeletal muscles always come in pairs, just like trainers. But there is a little bit more to it than that.

Skeletal muscle is a subtype of muscle formed of bundles of elongated, cylindrical, multinucleate muscle fibres arranged in a striated pattern. Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton by ...

New research pinpoints faulty branched-chain amino acid (BCAA ... to identify the molecular and metabolic signatures of skeletal muscle in patients with sarcopenia. Skeletal muscle constitutes ...