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Saturday, 26. June 2004
2012, June 26, 2004 at 7:22:00 AM AEST

Super-strong Mutant Boy!

A five year-old German boy is unusually muscular, and can "hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do."

He has a DNA mutation:

It is the first human case where a mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin (search) that limits muscle growth, though researchers discovered in 1997 that they could create mega-mice by "turning off" the gene that directs cells to produce the protein.


Suddenly the X-Men sounds less like science-fiction!

Sources: Fox News + New Scientist

  
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