Word: mutantes
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Almost overnight, it seemed, scientific interest in the genetics of beta amyloid exploded. Researchers had long been aware that early-onset Alzheimer's, while rare, often ran in families. Could it be, they wondered, that the culprit was a mutant version of the APP gene? In 1991 scientists at London's St. Mary's Hospital Medical School screened the DNA of an Alzheimer's family and found what every geneticist in the field had been furiously looking for. The mutant APP gene sat on chromosome 21, and the single change in its DNA sequence occurred in the vicinity...
...books about the boy-wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents and other adults as well. The trouble with such spontaneous, rapturous enthusiasm, at least to those with their gimlet eyes on the bottom line, is its unpredictability and fickleness, as with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. (The who? The what?) So this time out, the Harry Potter franchise decided to leave as little as possible to the whimsies of taste...
...premise comes straight from the comic book: Professor Charles Xavier leads a group of superpowered mutants against the evil forces of Magneto, a mutant bent on destroying humanity. Amidst the persecution of a society that fears and hates them, the X-Men seek the allegiance of a new mutant named Wolverine, who must make a choice. Does he choose Xavier's idealistic dream of a peaceful co-existence between humanity and mutantkind, or does he opt for Magneto's vision of a world in which mutants replace humans on top of the evolutionary ladder? Translating a comic book onto...
Wait--put down that sandwich. Do you really know what you're eating? That could have mutant food in it! That's right, dining hall food could indeed be made from mutant food. Who wouldn't be afraid of mutant food? The nondescript terms used to describe it--names including "engineered" and "altered"--conjure images of cows with two heads and mutant killer tomatoes. Common sense and popular stereotyping suggest that fluorescent puddles of green goo and nuclear power plants create these atrocities; Homer Simpson has certainly created tons of "altered" food through his various accidents over the years...
These protests have been largely based on misinformation about the practice of genetically engineering food products. Despite our instinctive fear of unknown, mutant food monsters, most of the endeavors to scientifically improve food have made crops hardier or more nutritious. Scientists have developed strains of corn that have built-in pesticides, for example, and others have developed a strain of rice that is rich in Vitamin...