The Secret Behind Muscle Growth....& Muscle Death

 

The white objects in the petri dish are bundles of muscle fibers extracted from the thigh of the participant on the right. If you look closely, you can see 1 INDIVIDUAL muscle fiber on the tip of the tweezers. Studying muscle at this single cell level helps us understand why & how it grows and dies. 

Help us buy this final piece to our microscope so we can finallystudy how and why muscle dies and grows. 

This has enormous implication formuscle wasting diseases/conditions (e.g. cancer,  ALS, space flightto MARS! etc.)  and those interested in maximizing muscle performance(e.g. sport, body appearance, or even successful aging!).