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Great news for skinny guys! Scientists have used gene therapy to successfully increase the size and strength of lab monkeys’ muscles.

But calm down, stickboys: the intended use of this research is in treating degenerative muscular diseases. Better keep paying that gym subscription for a while longer yet. Read the rest of this entry »

ALD, or Adrenoleukodystrophy, is an inherited neurodegenerative disease. Patients’ bodies are unable to break down certain types of fat molecules, and these accumulate to toxic levels in cells of the brain and spinal cord. Those cells gradually die. Thus far, there is no cure.

But scientists have just released details of an apparently successful trial of a new approach in the treatment of ALD: gene therapy. Read the rest of this entry »