Comments on: Gene Therapy That Bulks up Muscles Raises Doping Concerns

By: Phil Doran

Phil Doran — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:14:48 +0000

At eighty (and female) I’m finding the heavy work in the garden is getting heavier.
I can’t heave bird seed sacks around as well as I usd to, either.
Where can I get this stuff?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:24 +0000

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By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:07 +0000

This sounds like a good cure for those affected by muscle dystrophy. So why not help those, who are ill without worrying about certain people´s ego-states? Adults make their own decisions after all. Those, who want to consume drugs (also beauty drugs, such as “diet pills” and steroids) will do so, with or without new inventions and certainly without considering the consequences for their health.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:46:41 +0000

Most of us were not born like Lou Ferigno. So if it is safe why not level the playing field between those genetically gifted and the rest.

By: rabidmob

rabidmob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:56:46 +0000

Sign me up for performance enhancements please.

By: Rahsaan

Rahsaan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:37:28 +0000

LMAO at Zach and Jumblepudding’s witty comments. Seriously though, we should not let fear of probably abuse completely supersede all the healing this treatment would offer.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:23:42 +0000

I think we need dual categories for every sport: regular human and enhanced human.

Cuz I guarantee you the original Olympians did whatever they could to get ahead.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:45:07 +0000

They already did that Anon, the former is semi-pro and the latter is pro.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:02:24 +0000

I think it’s crazy bordering on criminal to start worrying about something that could help people with some very nasty diseases just because it might be abused by consenting adults being paid outrageous amounts of money to play games.

Aside from which, at least one article suggested that such gene therapy would be very easy to detect because the levels of the protein that inhibits myostatin would be far higher than is normal. See the last paragraph of this article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6913288.ece

I say break all sports into two separate leagues, one that attempts to ban all forms of doping (like most current sports) and another where anything goes. I’m quite sure the second would be far more popular as existing records are broken left and right.

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:48:18 +0000

I’m an adult male who has body image issues from a childhood of exposure to bulked up superheroes and steroid-loaded b-movie actors. sign me up for a myostatin inhibitor. I call it athleticism reassignment therapy.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:40 +0000

It would be a tragedy if overwrought concerns about theoretical (non-health threatening) misuse would inhibit the development of treatments that would clearly be beneficial to a lot of people in need.