Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have solved a key part of a muscle regeneration mystery plaguing scientists for years, adding strong support to the theory that muscle mass can be built ...

Inhibiting a growth factor that keeps muscles from getting too big may optimize recovery of injured soldiers, researchers say. Bone biologists are studying two myostatin inhibitors in mice with limb ...

A UConn professor and researcher who 28 years ago discovered a gene for a protein that limits human muscle growth is closer than ever to having that work play a significant role in treating those with ...

Mighty Mouse was not just a cartoon. Ten years ago, scientists demonstrated that they could increase an animal's muscle mass by manipulating a protein in mice called myostatin. Now drugs that affect ...

Brittle tendons in mice reveal the potential downside of myostatin inhibitor drugs that are attracting interest as possible treatments for muscular dystrophy and as illicit performance-enhancing drugs ...

As an infant, the Man Of Steel escaped Krypton's red sun in a rocket lovingly prepared for him by his parents. Kal-L (but more commonly known as Kal-El) arrived under our yellow sun in Smallville to ...

Activation of GDF8 or myostatin, a signaling protein that is responsible for limiting muscle has been identified, reveals a new study. The research team at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of ...

Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily, regulates the glucose metabolism of muscle cells, while dysregulated myostatin activity is associated with a number of metabolic ...

As weight loss drugs boom in popularity, some companies are focusing their sights on therapies for muscle loss prevention, a common side effect of weight loss treatments. In recent years, blockbuster ...

Metabolic rates of passerine birds are flexible traits that vary both seasonally and among and within winters. Seasonal variation in summit metabolic rates (Msum = maximum thermoregulatory metabolism) ...