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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. 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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  2. 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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