Word: mutantes
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...students plan to go door-to-door as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and have spent the entire month of October looking for sweatpants the perfect shade of amphibian green...
...million of them. So the genetic secrets hidden in those codes could help drug companies design more effective treatments, better repellents and maybe even a vaccine. The information could also be used, some scientists suggest, to breed genetically modified mosquitoes that are resistant to the malaria parasite. Release these mutant bugs in the wild, the thinking goes, and they will occupy the same ecological niche as wild mosquitoes, competing for food and, with any luck, eventually displacing them...
...guarantee that new bugs carrying it would have any evolutionary advantage over the old ones. Besides, parasite-host relationships are notoriously protean; as soon as resistance genes appear, the parasites develop counter-resistance. And there's always the possibility that the experiment could backfire, creating swarms of mutant mosquitoes that are even worse than the ones we have...
It’s a little embarrassing to admit. After all, the Tigers haven’t had a winning season since my brother and I were dressing up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...console, Elvis Presley fooled around until he came up with a variation on the Arthur Crudup song "That's All Right." It was, too. "That's different," Phillips legendarily said. "That's a pop song now, just 'bout." What it was, just 'bout, was rock 'n roll - a mighty mutant of pop, blues and country, born July 5, 1954, right there at 706 Union Avenue...