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Anna Dilger

Animal scientist

Sep 22, 2026

14:25
Wow.
14:25
Yeah.
14:26
Super interesting because we have myostatin knockout mice.
14:30
We have myostatin knockout cattle.
14:33
In almost every species that we have selected for muscle growth, we have inadvertently selected for a loss of myostatin.
14:43
And so why is it so devastating in pigs? So I had a grad student who did the ill-fated graduate thesis lovingly called, Why You Dying? Because it's actually really hard to like, okay, yeah, but why did they die? They died because they did not live.
15:05
It's actually really hard to diagnose.

9 MINS LATER

24:24
You know, so if you look back and if you could tell yourself, younger self, one thing, what would that one thing be? Like, I wish I had known this.

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