September 2018

The Muscle Issue

The dynamic tissue reveals its secrets

Features

Muscle Clocks Play a Role in Regulating Metabolism

Gene Editing Could One Day Treat Muscle Disorders

How Muscles Age, and How Exercise Can Slow It

Speaking of Science

Ten-Minute Sabbatical

Bio Business

New ALS Therapies Move Closer to the Clinic

Foundations

Homo sapiens Exposed, 1556

The Literature

How Red Blood Cells Get Their Dimples

Muscles Hold a Key to Sleep Recovery

Old Age Has Links to Redox Stress in Muscles

Profiles

Muscle Master: Angela Dulhunty

Reading Frames

Sandeep Jauhar’s New Book, Heart, is a Personal History

Contributors

Contributors

Modus Operandi

Putting Exosomes to Work

Scientist to Watch

Avnika Ruparelia’s Fish Reveal Secrets of Muscle Diseases and Aging

Critic at Large

Opinion: Stop Ignoring This Filament Crucial to Muscle Function

Notebook

Vibrations Restore Sense of Movement in Prosthetics

Rat Remains Reveal Landscape Changes Wrought by Human Settlement of Polynesia

Nest Herbs Encourage Starling Parents to Incubate Their Eggs

Soft Robotics Find a Place in the Ocean

Lab Tools

Speeding Up Stem Cell Growth

Freeze Frame

Caught on Camera

Editorial

No Enemy

Infographics

Infographic: Red Blood Cell Shape

Infographic: Directing Exosome Traffic

Infographic: Triggering Titin

Infographic: Exploring New Therapeutic Targets in ALS

Infographic: How Muscles Age

Infographic: The Role of Circadian Clocks in Muscle

Infographic: Treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

DNA and pills, conceptual illustration of the relationship between genetics and therapeutic development

Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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