San Francisco-based company Skulpt jumped into the fitness wearables market in February with a sensor designed to measure the ratio of fat and muscle fiber in a user’s muscles. But while the device might seem perfectly suited to the body-building world, there is more to Skulpt than just bulking up.
Co-founder Seward Rutkove is a Harvard-educated neurologist and heads the Division of Neuromuscular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In February 2011, Rutkove won a $1 million prize from Prize4Life for finding a way to quantify muscular deterioration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The medical wing of Rutkove’s company is still based in Boston, and provides medical devices used by research teams investigating muscle-wasting diseases such as ALS, muscular dystrophy, and spinal muscular atrophy.
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