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.

“But you can’t use them to explore cell ... muscle cells are long, complex and difficult to reproduce. An advanced technique now allows human iPSCs to be converted into striated ...

"We chose to work with skeletal muscle cells. But there's nothing stopping you from doing this with any other cell type." She notes that while the team used precision-printing techniques ...