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Research Finds Bodybuilders With Similar Body Image Concerns, Whether or Not They Use Steroids
Jun 29, 2009 |
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When it comes to characteristics associated with muscle dysmorphia, there is no difference between bodybuilders who use steroids and those who do not, a University of Arkansas researcher found.
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Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy shows promise beyond safety
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Researchers have cleared a safety hurdle in efforts to develop a gene therapy for a form of muscular dystrophy that disables patients by gradually weakening muscles near the hips and shoulders.
Treatment to improve degenerating muscle gains strength
Nov 11, 2009 |
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A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disord ...
Scientist clears hurdles for muscular dystrophy therapy
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Approximately 250,000 people in the United States have some form of muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type of the disease, predominantly affecting males. Boys with DMD will lose the ...
Researchers use needle-thin probe to get first look at working muscle fiber
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Using an unusual microscope with a tip the size of a needle, Stanford researchers are now able to look at tiny fibers of working muscles in live humans, with minimum discomfort to the patient—a development patients are sure ...
Sarcospan, a little protein for a big problem
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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The overlooked and undervalued protein, sarcospan, just got its moment in the spotlight. Peter et al. now show that adding it to muscle cells might ameliorate the most severe form of muscular dystrophy.
Worms survived shuttle crash
Jan 03, 2006 |
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NASA says tiny nematode worms that were aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it exploded were recovered alive in Texas.
Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers ...
'Mighty mice' made mightier
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Aug 29, 2007 |
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The Johns Hopkins scientist who first showed that the absence of the protein myostatin leads to oversized muscles in mice and men has now found a second protein, follistatin, whose overproduction in mice lacking ...
Study reveals intermediary steps of genetic encoding for the first time
Mar 27, 2009 |
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In a new study this week in Nature, researchers at Brandeis University and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, U.K.) for the first time shed light on a crucial step in the complex process by which human geneti ...
Long-term muscle improvements shown in gene therapy study in mice
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Injecting a gene responsible for making a specific protein into a mouse that’s used as a model for muscular dystrophy can lead to long-term improvements in the animal’s muscle size and strength, a new study shows.
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