Without tendons, your muscles couldn’t move your body. When you injure a tendon, it can affect your everyday activities. Scientists are looking for ways to repair these notoriously difficult injuries.

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Tendinopathy is a tendon disorder that is caused by the failure to self-repair and has many pathological characteristics such as disorganized ECM and decreased cell viability. We have identified a pos...

Optogenetic tools like Channelrhodpsin-2 (ChR2) are useful for inducing skeletal muscle contraction using blue light. However, the prevalence of fluorescent proteins like EYFP may cause functional is...

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

Welcome to the Killian and Abraham Laboratories! The Killian and Abraham Labs are a research group focused on connective tissue development and disease in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories in the ...