Scientists Regenerate Rat Muscle Tissue

[DEAD7]

Muscle lost through traumatic injury, congenital defect, or tumor ablation may soon be regenerated from within. A team of researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has shown how stem cells in the body of mice and rats can be mobilized to form new muscle in damaged regions. "Working to leverage the body’s own regenerative properties, we designed a muscle-specific scaffolding system that can actively participate in functional tissue regeneration," explains Sang Jin Lee, senior author on the study. This scaffold was implanted in the rats' tibialis anterior muscle (which is found below the knee), serving as a kind of home for the muscle progenitor cells to grow and develop.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Do it for cartilage and we enter the next era of sports.

 

[unit321]

So, this could possibly used for healthy people, particularly athletes, as a replacement for HGH and anabolic steroids. That is, you add muscles cells to existing muscle fibers to add strength. You can't trace it back to drug use, e.g. you can give a test to check for anabolic steroids, and it won't have the negative side effects of steroid use, e.g. men with breast growth, prostate shrinkage, anger issues, and women with moustaches and lowered voices.
The one issue I see with this is that, similar to steroid users, your muscle strength can exceed your ligament strength, thus resulting in pretty torn ligaments, dislocation of ligaments from bone, and also muscle tears.

 

[King Sun]

D Wade looking like

 

[Truth200]

Do it for cartilage and we enter the next era of sports.

Yup...