The discovery may explain why cutting edge CAR T-cell therapy has managed to revolutionized treatment for blood cancer but ...

Myostatin is one of the inhibitory proteins that operate inside your muscle cells. If you get a mutation in the gene encoding myostatin, then, your muscles won’t have one of the key signals that ...

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals started a Phase I clinical trial a few weeks ago in which healthy human volunteers are injected with an antibody–dubbed myo-029–that inhibits myostatin, said Gerald Burr ...

Rare cases of a genetic mutation could one day lead to muscle-building drugs. April 2, 2009— -- Every new child has a few surprises, but imagine bringing home an adopted baby to find he was ...

Single bird flu mutation could let it latch easily to human cells, study finds. The potential mutation would allow the virus to hitch itself to a protein on the surface of our cells, ...

As the role of myostatin in regulating muscle function in oldest-old mice had not previously been studied, and there is a positive correlation between muscle mass and longevity in humans , we tested ...

Genetic mutations that cause mammals — including humans — to develop super ripped muscles are now resulting in exceedingly buff fish, according to a paper in the latest issue of Animal Genetics ...

Liam Hoekstra – Liam was the second baby found to have this myostatin mutation. He could hang on rings in an iron cross by 5 months and perform pull-ups by 9 months. Bodybuilder Flex Wheeler was ...

Some humans have actually been born with this mutation. By studying this genetic quirk, and related conditions involving muscle buildup and decay, scientists hope to treat degenerative disorders ...

Working with mice carrying the genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy in humans, the scientists discovered that mice without the gene for myostatin had less physical damage to ...

Experimental myostatin knockout in mice or some natural mutations of the myostatin gene increase muscle mass dramatically in mice, cattle and human beings. The case of a boy with twice the normal ...