Nashville' actor Isabelle Tate has died at 23. Here's what to know about her fight with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Actress Isabelle Tate passed away from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease shortly after making her television debut on the ABC ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disease affecting specialized nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). It can ...

Nashville star Isabelle Tate’s death is bringing attention to a rare disease. On Thursday, October 23, news broke that the ...

HOUSTON – A newly identified gene, atrogin-1, is involved in muscle loss associated with cancer, diabetes, fasting and kidney disease as well as in the atrophy occurring with disuse, inactivity, and ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

Skeletal muscle atrophy, or wasting, is a devastating and often irreversible syndrome during the aging process and for patients with advanced cancer. Muscle wasting involves a decrease in muscle mass ...

This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular atrophy, during tests of experimental spinal cord stimulation to ...

Build strength and fight muscle loss after 50 with six simple bodyweight and dumbbell moves that beat gym machines.

More than 30 types of muscular dystrophy have been identified. They all cause problems with movement due to muscle protein defects caused by genetic mutations. Muscular dystrophy is a group of ...

A University of Alberta research team is shedding much-needed light on cancer cachexia, a severe muscle-wasting syndrome ...

Most of us have imagined how free it would feel to float around, like an astronaut, in conditions of reduced gravity. But have you ever considered what the effects of reduced gravity might have on ...