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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."
they's us.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Still no cure for cancer.
"You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string banjo." -unknown minister
posting the article text for karma is gay...
Please don't read my sig.
i wasn't posting it for karma. cry about it.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
What the hell is wrong with people?
They write dumb shit.
My leatherbound volume of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has to weigh AT LEAST that much.
I just weighed mine (we've all got one, don't we?) and it came up a bit short. 2.33 kg. Call it five pounds. I just straight armed a five pound dumbell and then placed my LOtR on top of it. No problemo.
No one's going to mistake me for Mr. Universe either. My 5'4" (162.5 cm) size 5 (35) wife gave up arm wrestling me because there wasn't enough challenge in it.
I suppose by "many adults" they must mean "at least three."
KFG
I guess that clicking the link and noting that you don't have to register is also gay?
That has to be the worst grasp of humor I've ever seen.