[Fett]

Also, the article might not be the most well-researched article. Humans have 10 "abs" as it were, it's just the middle six that are the most well known. It sounds like someone's just using the term 'abs' to refer to all muscles under the chest that aren't obliques.

[Tonus]

Genetic manipulation is rapidly growing field of operation and I guess it's only a matter of time when they start to alter the humans too.

We have certainly made strides in our understanding of genetics, and I expect (and hope) that we are expanding that understanding quickly.  However, experimentation on humans is an issue that quickly runs into political and social minefields.

I'm not saying that those considerations are right or wrong.  I'm saying that I think it will be a really long time before we move from experimenting this way on plants and lower animals and onto human subjects.  There is still a popular perception that tinkering with the genome amounts to "playing god," and many people will resist the idea without giving it any consideration.

And that may not be for the worst.  A failed experiment with disastrous side effects could turn public opinion so ugly that this kind of research would be shut down for a very very long time.  Better to let it continue 'under the radar' and away from the eyes of people who would seek to stop it from progressing.  I think that genetic studies could lead to a future where humans are inoculated against many diseases and genetic defects before they're even born.  Don't think "designer humans" with extra muscles or bigger boobs.  Think about your son or grandson NOT being born with spina bifida.

[alex]

The reason more genetic engineering hasn't been done in humans, is because we have yet to find safe and effective means of gene transfer.  This is very, very hard!  You're talking about changing the genes in millions of cells, with Retro-viruses and other methods, while our entire immune system works against this.

Only when we get through this obstacle, is that we're really going to really start seeing things go crazy in this department.

[Ashlee]

Well hypertrophy of body muscle has been recorded in senitdary people in the past years its nothing new, One of the Doctors I go clubing with showed me Muscle imaging book in Health and Disease ,of people who did nothing all there life but have very muscular body builds.
I don't think I would want to get that BIG , its fanasty.

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