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Monkeying around with myostatin: on the road to healthier humans or human hulks?

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the-Hulk

The myostatin gene has been getting quite a bit of attention lately. The buzz surrounds the idea of inhibiting myostatin either through gene therapy or via germline human genetic modification. In this way, some hope to create people with more muscle. Myostatin, which also goes by the acronym MSTN, has an inhibitory function on muscle. […]

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Why gene and stem cell doping at the Olympics is banned but likely happening

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Stem cell doping, Stem cell doping Olympics

Could there be stem cell doping or gene doping at the ongoing Paris Olympics right now? I’ve wondered about such things happening throughout several past Olympics. In fact, I asked this kind of question 12 years ago. Authorities are taking such possibilities even more seriously. What would stem cell doping mean? How could cells or

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Weekly reads: life extension & BioViva, clinics & anti-vax, axolotls, systemic CRISPR

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BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

Let’s start off today’s recommended reads with the topic of life extension. No controversy there, right? This comes to mind because of a new preprint from BioViva, Liz Parrish, and George Church. I’m hoping to cover this on our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube.  Gene therapy and life extension research The preprint is entitled, “New

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Weekly reads on organoids, COVID, CRISPR, cold chromatin, more

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Cold-chromatin

As a researcher, is there ever enough time to get to everything that you want to read especially in newer areas like stem cells, organoids, and CRISPR, without even including non-scientific reads like Shakespeare or a new novel or something like that? Hopefully, putting together lists of recommended reads like today’s post is helpful. I

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Claim of Liz Parrish DIY gene therapy linked to unlicensed stem cell clinic

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In a strange, but fascinating tale recounted by Antonio Regalado in an article over at MIT Tech Review, we hear the first claim of a do-it-yourself (DIY) gene therapy involving a firm called BioViva and its leader Liz Parrish. Liz Parrish and BioViva The owner of a small biotech called BioViva, Liz Parrish, reportedly traveled

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