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With muscle-building treatment, mice live longer even as tumors grow

In the vast majority of patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Now, researchers reporting in the August 20 issue of Cell, have found some n ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Muscling in on type 2 diabetes

Research by kinesiology investigator Dustin Hittel, PhD, has proven that muscle in extremely obese individuals produces large amounts of a protein called myostatin, which normally inhibits muscle growth--suggesting that for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0