Human anatomy still has a few surprises in store for us: researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a previously overlooked section of our jaw muscles and described this layer in detail ...

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The new study indicates that there lies an additional layer of muscles in the masseter, which stabilises the lower jaw and is possibly the only part of the masseter that can pull the lower jaw back ...

In an effort to find the remaining genes that govern myosin--the major contractile protein that makes up muscle tissue--researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have made a ...

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