Genetically Engineered Muscle

[ChrisC]

Anyone remember the ridiculous "myostatin inhibitor" supplements that the supplement companies released several years ago?

Scientific American magazine has a great article on the current state of the art in gene therapy and genetically engineering muscle.

www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000E7ACE-5686-10CF-94EB83414B7F0000

For those who don't feel like poring through the article (it's fairly long). Here are some of the pictures accompanying the article ;D

[J65]

Technology marches on, with all the ethical questions that will cause many controversies, especially in the sports world.

On the positive side, these discoveries will help people with such diseases as muscular dystrophy.

[Troyster]

An interesting show aired here in Canada last week regarding this. They expect "gene doping" to be the next big wave to hit sports. The doping commision said that currently, the only way to tell is by doing a bi-opsy.

FM, so now they not only want to take your blood but they want a chunk of you too!! LOL, we'll see how that goes over.

T

PS - Great link Chris, thanks!!!