Scientists find a protein block regrows knee cartilage in mice and human tissue (med.stanford.edu) 1 points by ck2 11d ago ↗ HN
[–] ck2 11d ago ↗ note the same protein signaling also inhibits muscle growth, reverses when blockedactual study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx6649
[–] johnathan101 11d ago ↗ Regenerating cartilage has been a goal for a long time. The science is exciting, but the real milestone will be whether it works safely in large clinical trials. [–] ck2 11d ago ↗ I'd bet it will work since it worked on human tissuebut there will be unintended side-effects with other muscle and organ growth that will be unacceptablethat protein sounds like nature evolved some kind of rate-limiterbut it's fascinating they found itmaybe it can be safely used for short spurts like a couple weeks at a time(and I also bet it will become a performance-enhancing drug WADA has to test for)
[–] ck2 11d ago ↗ I'd bet it will work since it worked on human tissuebut there will be unintended side-effects with other muscle and organ growth that will be unacceptablethat protein sounds like nature evolved some kind of rate-limiterbut it's fascinating they found itmaybe it can be safely used for short spurts like a couple weeks at a time(and I also bet it will become a performance-enhancing drug WADA has to test for)
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] threadactual study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx6649
but there will be unintended side-effects with other muscle and organ growth that will be unacceptable
that protein sounds like nature evolved some kind of rate-limiter
but it's fascinating they found it
maybe it can be safely used for short spurts like a couple weeks at a time
(and I also bet it will become a performance-enhancing drug WADA has to test for)