Key to creating the double-muscled pigs is a mutation in the myostatin gene (MSTN). MSTN inhibits the growth of muscle cells, keeping muscle size in check. But in some cattle, dogs and humans, MSTN is ...

Scattered throughout the mammalian menagerie are a few supermuscular freaks: double-muscled cows more ripped than ... clinical-trial results of myostatin inhibitors for muscle-wasting diseases ...

Experimental myostatin knockout in mice or some natural mutations of the myostatin gene increase muscle mass dramatically in mice, cattle and human beings ... acts tissue specific and because ...

Muscular "super cattle" have been produced through genetic mutation and decades of selective breeding. What's False Muscular "super cattle" are not technically the result of "genetic engineering ...

"When the myostatin inhibitors come along, they'll be abused," says Carlon Colker, a bodybuilder and a physician in Greenwich, Conn., who works with professional athletes. "There's no question in ...

Myostatin, a protein that blocks muscle growth, has shown promising results as a potential therapeutic target for treating muscular dystrophy in animal studies, where its inhibition led to ...

since mutations in the myostatin gene have been shown to be responsible for the “double-muscling” phenotype in cattle. 10–13 The phenotypes of mice and cattle lacking myostatin and the high ...

Historically, before becoming aware of the potential disruptive influence of the myostatin gene on cattle breeding, Charlotte Davis, of Clapton Farm, near Wincanton, would see seven to 10 calves ...

A UConn professor and researcher who 28 years ago discovered a gene for a protein that limits human muscle growth is closer than ever to having that work play a significant role in treating those ...