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New 'Mighty Mouse' Formula Found

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the beefy-rodent-overlord dept.

mystyc writes to tell us that scientists at Johns Hopkins have improved upon their original "mighty mice" discovery. Teamed with the biotech firm MetaMorphix and pharmaceutical company Wyeth, they have found a new agent that interacts with the muscle-limiting protein myostatin that was able to trigger a 60% increase in muscle size after just two weekly injections.

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  1. I dunno ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    think I'll wait 'til they work the bugs out before I go for my injections.

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  2. new market? by mr_stinky_britches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So will this only be used for already sick people, or are we going to have to test for it in sports in the next decade?

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  3. Athletes... nature's willing guinea pigs. by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Insightful

    are we going to have to test for it in sports in the next decade?

    Decade? I give it months.

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    1. Re:Athletes... nature's willing guinea pigs. by chemisus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      months?

      nah, id give it... how long did the article say the forumla takes? 2 weeks?

      just take a picture of baseball players now, and compare it in 2 weeks. im sure a 66% increase in muscles would be quite noticable.

    2. Re:Athletes... nature's willing guinea pigs. by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Spammers will be updating their "mighty muscle" emails within days!

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  4. Re:normal people by mangamuscle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You need to recheck again your facts. The reason steroids are banned is not because they have side effects, ask your doctor and he will tell you that all medicines (including) drugs have side effects. So why steroids in particular are illegal and (i.e.) viagra is not? 1) The soviets block was using it and winning medals, so it was easier to call it immoral and unfair using steroids. 2) Nixon started the war on drugs, adding steroids to the list was the next natural thing to do, nowadays 'roids are a multi-million dollar a year industry. 3) For a fascist goverment it is better to have fat citizens, athletic citizens have the scary custom of flexing their political muscles against the goverment.

  5. Re:No miracle pill here by bcrowell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who says people want to increase muscle mass in order to be strong? I suspect a lot of guys would like to have more muscle mass just because they think it would look good.

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  6. Re:No Problemo? by dallasmsl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In response to your posting, bodybuilders have NOT been found to have less myostatin than non-weightlifters. Not ONE scientific report will back up your statement. In fact, in most bodybuilders, myostatin has been working just fine at keeping them from becoming absolutely huge. No bodybuilder just looks at weights and becomes muscular. Unlike these mice, bodybuilders train on a daily basis. These mice gained muscle mass (and muscle cells!) without any additional exercise! As for your inference that the child in Germany will have heart problems, the doctors do NOT know this. In fact, they do know that the parents don't have problems so their warning about the child is unfounded.