The potential relevance of myostatin to the treatment of disease in humans has been suggested by studies involving mdx mice, which carry a mutation in the dystrophin gene and therefore serve as a ...

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

The massive size of their calves also makes giving birth dangerous, so c-sections are often required. Some animals who have been experimentally given myostatin mutations have other problems, too.

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 ...

A handful of children born with a genetic mutation that makes them super-strong are leading scientists to study possible gene therapies to build muscle mass.

Fighting aging reports that loss of myostatin mutations in mice produce extended life spans, but too much suppression of myostatin may remove that benefit due to the cardiac issues that can accompany ...

If a person produced less myostatin they would be stronger than the average person. They would have a genetic mutation that gave them increased strength.

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 ...

A whippet with the myostatin mutation (PLOS /CC) When the myostatin gene is disrupted, the body fails to produce the muscle-inhibiting protein manufactured by the gene.

The Hopkins team bred mice without the myostatin gene with mice carrying the genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy in humans. Muscular dystrophy mice completely lacking ...