"Exercise" shown to improve the performance of lab-grown muscle implants

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We all know that you need to exercise if you want to develop your muscles. As it turns out, however, exercise also makes lab-grown muscle implants more effective when introduced to the body. Scientists from North Carolina’s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have discovered that after being gently expanded and contracted, implants placed in lab animals were better able to stimulate new muscle growth than implants that were left “unexercised.”.. Continue Reading "Exercise" shown to improve the performance of lab-grown muscle implants

Section: Research Watch

Tags: Exercise, Implant, Muscle, Rehabilitation, Wake Forest University

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