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(Ivanhoe Newswire) Super strong mice and marathon mice and nematodes were created by reducing the function of a natural inhibitor, suggesting treatments for age-related or genetically caused muscle degeneration are within reach. It turns out tha ...

An international team of scientists has created super-strong, high-endurance mice and worms by suppressing a natural muscle-growth inhibitor, suggesting treatments for age-related or genetics-related muscle degeneration are within reach.

By rewinding the clock and coaxing mature muscle back to an earlier stem cell stage, bioengineers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, in the US have opened the door to the development of new ways to treat muscle degeneration such as that seen in muscular dystrophy or aging. They also accomplished the task by altering cell chemistry without resorting to gene manipulation. They write ...

UC Berkeley researchers have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that the newly reprogrammed muscle stem cells could be used to help repair damaged tissue. The research could lead to new treatments to combat muscle degeneration.

Eating crayfish has been confirmed as the cause of muscle degeneration suffered by at least 23 people in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, officials told a press conference in the provincial capital yesterday.