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22 May 2026
Muscles in Culture
A analysis of why muscle fibres being cultured for study in the lab deteriorate finds it's due to changes induced in the cell's inner scaffold or cytoskeleton and that keeping the cells in a fibrin-based hydrogel improves their viability
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- Image from work by Leander A. Vonk and Osman Esen, and colleagues
- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of General Physiology, November 2025
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