Real X-Men

[ShadyMilkman]

This doesn't really belong here, but it'll do.



http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/06/24....ap/index.html



Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat.



DNA testing showed why: The boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth.



The discovery, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, represents the first documented human case of such a mutation.



Many scientists believe the find could eventually lead to drugs for treating people with muscular dystrophy and other muscle-destroying conditions. And athletes would almost surely want to get their hands on such a drug and use it like steroids to bulk up.



The boy's mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth. The news comes seven years after researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore created buff "mighty mice" by "turning off" the gene that directs cells to produce myostatin.



"Now we can say that myostatin acts the same way in humans as in animals," said the boy's physician, Dr. Markus Schuelke, a professor in the child neurology department at Charite/University Medical Center Berlin. "We can apply that knowledge to humans, including trial therapies for muscular dystrophy."

[Insane Asian]

holy crap thats gonna be one strong baby. wow i didnt know not many adults couldnt hold out 7lbs straight out. thats crazy they didnt even genetically alter the baby, thats wrong though the way they do tests on him.

[ShadyMilkman]

Yah but it may benefit others in the end. Only science will tell us I guess.

[manda]

That sounds outrageous, lifting seven pounds.

[ShadyMilkman]

If you click on the link to the full story, theres a picture of the kids legs. Its amazing that he's not even a year old yet and he has bulging muscles like that. The fact that his shoulders are so developed so that he can hold 7lbs out in front of him is definitely a feat in itself.

Thats crazy!In a few years germany will have super strong mutant children running around. The only science kinda stuff im into is the human genome project. Now that will change the future of science forever.

[white_lighter]

damn thats crazy and whats even more crazy is that i was goin to pick the name shady milkman cause i always loved that nike ad

[ShadyMilkman]

Hah! I'm surprised someone else actually saw that ad!

[exabuser]

that reminds me of hitlers experiments to geneticaly


enhance his blue eyed bloned haired children


U.S.A (USE STOP ABUSE)

[searcher]

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hahaha. that is great searcher. "bruce banner, I slashed your tires."