Well, I think many biologists are secretly hoping to find the mutation that leads to the creation of Nightcrawler or one of the other X-Men.
Mutations being beneficial is akin to Stan Lee’s idea that Gamma Radiation creates superheroes :)
I learned the other day—here on FR—that President Obama is actually: http://marvel.com/universe/Magneto !!!
There was an AP article pointing out that The 0ne as Magneto was using personal magnetism to accomplish all sort of superhuman/mutant types of feats!
So I guess the cat is out of the bag now.