Mutation Creates SuperKid

Tzarius writes "It's not exactly regular Slashdot fare, but the NYTimes has a story about a kid in Berlin (now 4 years old) who was born with naturally massive muscles. It's not a new condition, but it apparently hasn't been recorded in humans before. It also looks like the cause is a suppression of the myostatin protein, which could be reproducible." Reader Spazmasta adds "A gene that blocks production of a muscle-limiting protein (called myostatin) has been found in a abnormally muscular German baby. This news comes apparently 7 years after researchers at Johns Hopkins created 'mighty mice' through a related approach, turning off the gene that produces the muscle-limiting protein. I, for one, welcome our new myostatin-free overlords."

Comments

Re:This is a child’s misfortune.

[Iberian]

You didn't read the article did you? Of course not this is slashdot.

That's not a troll. THIS is a troll. Bitch.

[the_mad_poster]

Let me take a wild guess at what might make someone say something that abysmally stupid.

You're sitting there in your faded blue pajamas because you're too damn fat for anything else. There are orangish stains up the tops of both thighs where you keep wiping your Doritos greased hands. There's a huge stain on the chest where you spilled your 60oz cherry cola from the Super Stop last night.

As your wandering along through Slashdot, you come upon my post stating my 150 pound weight. You reflect, for a moment, on those bygone days as a grade schooler when last you weighed so little, and then, in a fit of frustrated rage over your own self-inflicted morbid obesity, angrily ramble off the first thing that comes to your head.

Unfortunately, poor nutrition affects your ability to think and reason just as it does your body, and you, my friend, wound up rambling off some nonsense that suggests that mass is the determining factor in overall fitness.

Either that or you've been on the Atkins diet and developed a chronic brain disease. One or the other.

Re:Well that's new (?)

[phyruxus]

>>Using parthenogenesis to attempt to "explain away" the virgin birth is just stupid.

Wow, you are really humorless. BTW, asshat, I made that insight when I was 16. You must be a real big man, to see the logical phallacy in a joke. Woo Woo! I ph34r your asshat-5kills!

>>It's impossible, even in the absurd event of unstimulated parthenogenesis, for a male to be born this way. Sorry to just blow a big huge hole in your weak arguement, but if you make arguements as dumb as this you should expect it to happen.

Dude, grow up. The whole world isn't a catholic convent, ya know. Oh yeah, just what argument do you presume I was making? Hmm? I don't recall making one at all. Wow, you religious freaks are really volatile when your faith comes into question, aren't you? Fucktard. Get a clue, or at least take a class. Fuck you! :)

One last thing, god-boy, what if anything do you have to say about the other posts, re: translations of the Bible? Oh, nothing huh. That's what I thought. Apologies to non-asshats (that doesn't mean you, bahamutherf*cker.)