Sea creatures could help us grow muscles

**Prince** · 03-21-2011, 10:26 AM

Sea creatures could help us grow muscles

Researchers have discovered that minute whiskers of nanoscale dimensions taken from sea creatures called tunicates could hold the key to creating working human muscle tissue

These nanostructures are several thousand times smaller than muscle cells and are the smallest physical feature found to cause cell alignment. Alignment is important since a lot of tissue in the body, including muscle, contains aligned fibres which give it strength and stiffness.

Cellulose is a polysaccharide – a long chain of sugars joined together – usually found in plants and is the main component of paper and certain textiles such as cotton.

It is already being used for a number of different medical applications, including wound dressings, but this is the first time it has been proposed for creating skeletal muscle tissue.

Tunicates grow on rocks and man-made structures in coastal waters around the world.

Cellulose extracted from tunicates is particularly well suited for making muscle tissue due to its unique properties.

University of Manchester academics Dr Stephen Eichhorn and Dr Julie Gough, working with PhD student James Dugan, chemically extract the cellulose in the form of nanowhiskers. One nanometre is one billionth of a metre and these minute whiskers are only 10s of nanometres wide – far thinner than a human hair. When aligned and parallel to each other, they cause rapid muscle cell alignment and fusion.

The method is both simple and relatively quick, which could lead to doctors and scientists having the ability to create the normal aligned architecture of skeletal muscle tissue.

This tissue could be used to help repair existing muscle or even grow muscle from scratch.

Creating artificial tissue which can be used to replace damaged or diseased human muscles could revolutionise healthcare, and be of huge benefit to millions of people all over the world.

Eichhorn thinks the cellulose extracted from the creatures could lead to a significant medical advancement. He added: “Although it is quite a detailed chemical process, the potential applications are very interesting.

“Cellulose is being looked at very closely around the world because of its unique properties, and because it is a renewable resource, but this is the first time that it has been used for skeletal muscle tissue engineering applications.

“There is potential for muscle precision engineering, but also for other architecturally aligned structures such as ligaments and nerves.”

**sprayherup** · 03-21-2011, 12:48 PM

If you stack this with some deer antler extract you'll be sooooooooooo jacked as fuck!

**PainandGain** · 03-22-2011, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by sprayherup

If you stack this with some deer antler extract you'll be sooooooooooo jacked as fuck!

**maniclion** · 03-22-2011, 12:58 PM

I can imagine something like having an appendix removed, after they finish they lay a t-pad of these in the abdominal muscle wound and they fuse much faster, then they use a skin glue gel to close the dermal wound and you're out doing squats in a few days. Later you notice you left glute is smaller than your right glute so you have some injected into your left to balance out your look....

Then later we build some robots with this over a titanium skeleton instead of using hydraulics or servo motors and now have an army of miners we can send to other planets to mine rare materials. Soon we have so much gold we build our circuitry with it and things are operating much more efficiently like solar modules. They also bring back a new element that lets us build super light batteries that charge in a short period of time and release nearly 99%of the stored energy always at full voltage. We start putting these batteries in our home appliances and people just throw some solar modules on their roof and each appliance takes what it needs to get recharged.

Also some little girl has muscular dystrophy, with the help of this she goes to the Olympics as a gold medal gymnast....

**PainandGain** · 03-22-2011, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by maniclion

I can imagine something like having an appendix removed, after they finish they lay a t-pad of these in the abdominal muscle wound and they fuse much faster, then they use a skin glue gel to close the dermal wound and you're out doing squats in a few days. Later you notice you left glute is smaller than your right glute so you have some injected into your left to balance out your look....

Then later we build some robots with this over a titanium skeleton instead of using hydraulics or servo motors and now have an army of miners we can send to other planets to mine rare materials. Soon we have so much gold we build our circuitry with it and things are operating much more efficiently like solar modules. They also bring back a new element that lets us build super light batteries that charge in a short period of time and release nearly 99%of the stored energy always at full voltage. We start putting these batteries in our home appliances and people just throw some solar modules on their roof and each appliance takes what it needs to get recharged.

Also some little girl has muscular dystrophy, with the help of this she goes to the Olympics as a gold medal gymnast....

Good. Except before you get that far, the republicans campaign against the idea of smart robots going to other planets because it's not what God would want.

**maxpro2** · 03-23-2011, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by sprayherup

If you stack this with some deer antler extract you'll be sooooooooooo jacked as fuck!

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