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Se-Jin Lee is an MD and a PhD, likes to play around with molecular biology and genetics. Here's what he can do for you.
Lee is puttering around in the labs at Johns Hopkins and finds that he can double the amount of muscle by removing a gene that makes myostatin. Then he improves on that idea.
He engineers a mouse lacking myostatin that makes extra follistatin. I dunno what it is either, but it quadrupled the amount of muscle tissue, as evidenced by the big guy on the right.
Se-Jin says the idea can be used to increase the meat on pork and beef livestock. Quantumfog is way ahead of this idea, and now offers for sale some unused gym equipment.
Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:39:03
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