Saturday, July 23, 2011

Muscle injections!

What with Captain America and all becoming a superhero through some magical drug therapy etc, it might cause one to question the feasibility of such an experiment.

While not on the supersoldier level Captain America is on, the drug combats degenerative muscle conditions.  Having been proven to be safe and effective in animal testing, they've applied to the FDA to begin tests on humans.

Not leading to Hulked out levels of muscles, the results have a degree of regulation to keep them in check.

What they do is take some DNA that produces the protein follistatin, which turns off a gene called myostatin, which halts muscle growth, and put it in hollowed-out virus cells. 

Wham, bang, boom, inject in to muscle, and after about six weeks' time, improvements can be seen.

Full article for injection found: here

Alas, no superheroes are birthed this way...yet.  But time may tell.

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