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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was struck by the baby’s protruding thigh and upper arm muscles, and suspected a myostatin mutation. Sequencing the myostatin gene of the boy and his mother revealed both had a single change ...

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 ...

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.