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Alternatively, find a contact with access to enough recent biotech equipment to generate myostatin antibodies [1] or otherwise blockade myostatin or increase fo
by reasonattlm 10y ago
Alternatively, find a contact with access to enough recent biotech equipment to generate myostatin antibodies [1] or otherwise blockade myostatin or increase follistatin via gene therapy or other strategy.
I wager that this sort of thing is already taking place quietly on a small scale, given the large and growing number of people with access to the necessary tools and ability to do this.
[1]: http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2015/12/myostatin-warden-muscle-growth.shtml http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2015/12/myostatin-warden-musc...
- jacques_chester 10y agoThere's a lot of snake oil in this space. Nobody has conclusively developed any kind of myostatin inhibition in humans. There's basically a Nobel prize for anyone who does because it's the holy grail for muscle-wasting diseases. So the research is fiercely intensive.