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Mutant DNA gives super strength to German boy
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| June 25, 2004
| AP
Posted on 06/25/2004 8:56:12 AM PDT by Baraboo Law Jr.
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Legions of German super-strong tykes? Has France surrendered yet?
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
Ah-nold as a child. Superboy?
France immediately sued for peace.
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posted on
06/25/2004 8:58:50 AM PDT
by
theDentist
("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
The title of this article is a fabrication.
There is no "mutant" DNA.
The child is homozygous for a recessive trait that both his parents carried.
Junk reporting.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:03:02 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
Is he going to run for Governor of Kali yet?
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:04:12 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(DEMS STILL LIE like yellow dogs.)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:04:44 AM PDT
by
NYer
("Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels.")
To: dighton
If the Germans hook this kid up with a gang of
fireproof polar bears, they will finally be able to take over the world!!
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:06:11 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
This mutant is not alone. There is also a Russian girl with X-Ray vision! I heard some guy (Professor Xavier, I think his name was) talking about it on the radio...
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:06:29 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.; eastsider
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:08:20 AM PDT
by
NYer
("Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels.")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder what the longterm effects of this will be on the child?
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:16:19 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(Because he could....)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:16:25 AM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Clara Lou
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:21:13 AM PDT
by
Dead Dog
(Expose the Media to Light, Expose the Media to Market Forces.)
To: ClearCase_guy
There is also a Russian girl with X-Ray vision! How extensive is her ability?
Can she find oil?
To: Clara Lou
I wonder what the longterm effects of this will be on the child? Congestive heart failure is a possiblity according to the AMA article. They really don't know.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:30:22 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; Clara Lou
If they know which protein he is missing, could they not initiate a treatment?
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
Had to be in Germany! Wasn't Hitler trying to create a Super human race in the concentration camps??
To: NorthOf45
If they know which protein he is missing, could they not initiate a treatment?Maybe. That's what research is all about.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:39:45 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I thought German mutants were blue and teleported in a cloud of smoke?
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:40:55 AM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
(Bush/Cheney '04 - Win one for the Gipper!!!)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
The only drawback is that you need a microscope to see his testicles....
Come to think of it, that seems to be a problem with ALL German males nowadays.
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:45:25 AM PDT
by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
To: Baraboo Law Jr.
A seven-month old baby with a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth is seen in an undated black and white image released by the New England Journal of Medicine (news - web sites) on Wednesday June 23, 2004. The discovery, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, represents the first documented human case of such a mutation. The boy's mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth. (AP Photo/New England Journal of Medicine, HO)
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posted on
06/25/2004 9:57:17 AM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"congestive heart failure"
I would think that this can't be the first time this mutation has shown up in human beings. If it were a "successful" one, this wouldn't be so newsworthy.
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posted on
06/25/2004 10:04:30 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(Because he could....)
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