I thought this was a joke but since it's not, I'm laughing in amazement. Is this what most future babies will be like? Let's hope so. We already have too many diseases and stuff going around so if this baby could help us find cures, that'd be remarkable.
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I read something about this but I couldn't remember where.
I found it..
In a study done on myostatin deficient mice, it was found that they had more brittle tendons. Stronger/larger muscles coupled with more brittle tendons would normally equate to "muscles tears" at the insertion. However, I disagree, slightly, with the study conducted. The mutation that was responsible for myostatin deficiency may simply be a mutation that is affecting multiple mechanisms including scleraxis and tenomodulin. This trait(or rather, traits) the attributes itself to a myostatin deficiency was, in my opinion, erroneously assigned as a sympathetic mechanism for tendon weakness. In other words, the inheritance of myostatin deficiency in mice may come with other genetic baggage. Myostatin deficiency in other animals is not found with an accompaniment of weakened tendons. So, this may simply be an incidental mechanism to myostatin deficiency due to the genetic data passed on with the mutation. I could be utterly wrong and there are sympathetic paths affected by myostatin to some how get back to the tendons. (Which seems to be the mindset of the conclusion in this study.) Also, not all of the "mice" studies translate into the human body.
It would appear the myostatin deficiency, or rather, the effect of myostatin deficiency in the form of hypertrophy is not extended to cardiac muscles. This means the heart does not appear to experience the same hypertrophic effects the skeletal muscles do. As many of you may be aware, an enlarged heart is dangerous. As the muscles become larger, the chambers becomes smaller so your heart has to work harder to turn out the same volume of blood. Because the paths associated with the hypertrophically suppressive paths that myostatin affects, one would expect the cardiac muscles to be affected (from a myriad of mechanisms such as cell site receptors held in common with cardiac and skeletal muscles), but it has not been observed, which is excellent for muscular dystrophy patients and athletes.
With selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) and myostatin gene inhibitors on the horizon, we can look forward to magic muscles pills from the pharmaceutical industry that will make anabolic steroids look like dirty home-remedies.
There are super humans among us. Or rather, those humans that exhibit more favorable genetic dispositions. There is something very real about the story in "Unbreakable": there ARE humans at the opposite ends of the genetic spectrum.
One is born with muscular dystrophy, the other is born with myostatin deficiency.
Just like I've said in previous threads, genetically engineering our children is NOT science fiction. We will pick and chose our children's traits via genetic mechanisms. Gene doping is already here. The next step will be "womb doping".(That's my own term...you "heard" it here first, folks.)
Toku, you're not funny. And if you were a villain, you'd be the type to always fail at your missions, only to be mocked and laughed at by society. The police probably wouldn't even bother trying to capture you.
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I would think that likely. Life is "funny" like that, and people (especially those with visions of superhumans dancing in their heads) tend not to see the larger picture.
My guess is, before we can create actual superhumans (via genetics, nanotech, whatever), we're going to need a very comprehensive and detailed grasp of countless factors, many (if not most) of which we probably aren't even aware of at this time.
Truly, the first thing we should breed out of our race is egoic shortsightedness.
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Then we can add intelligence. After that we'll purify with white race.
They're going to pump him full of steroids, a yet unknown chemical, give him a funky suit (complete with shield) and send him to punch Hitler in the teeth?
Or is he going to play in the MLB All-Star Game five times?
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