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  • asdf_admin
    i use to be important
    • Jun 2004
    • 12798

    Superman Is Born ... Age 5 ...

    Whats that in the air?

    Holy Shit .... it's Super Cut and Paste!


    Doctors discover a toddler muscle man

    By Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press
    June 23, 2004

    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."

    Given the huge potential market for such drugs, researchers at universities and pharmaceutical companies already are trying to find a way to limit the amount and activity of myostatin in the body. Wyeth has just begun human tests of a genetically engineered antibody designed to neutralize myostatin.

    Dr. Lou Kunkel, director of the genomics program at Boston Children's Hospital and professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School, said success is possible within several years.

    "Just decreasing this protein by 20, 30, 50 percent can have a profound effect on muscle bulk," said Kunkel, who is among the doctors participating in the Wyeth research.

    Muscular dystrophy is the world's most common genetic disease. There is no cure and the most common form, Duchenne's, usually kills before adulthood. The few treatments being tried to slow its progression have serious side effects.

    Muscle wasting also is common in the elderly and patients with diseases such as cancer and AIDS.

    "If you could find a way to block myostatin activity, you might slow the wasting process," said Dr. Se-Jin Lee, the Johns Hopkins professor whose team created the "mighty mice."

    Lee said he believes a myostatin blocker also could suppress fat accumulation and thus thwart the development of diabetes. Lee and Johns Hopkins would receive royalties for any myostatin-blocking drug made by Wyeth.

    Dr. Eric Hoffman, director of Children's National Medical Center's Research Center for Genetic Medicine, said he believes a muscular dystrophy cure will be found, but he is unsure whether it will be a myostatin-blocking drug, another treatment or a combination, because about a dozen genes have some effect on muscles.

    He said a mystotatin-blocking drug could help other groups of people, including astronauts and others who lose muscle mass during long stints in zero gravity or when immobilized by illness or a broken limb.

    Researchers would not disclose the German boy's identity but said he was born to a somewhat muscular mother, a 24-year-old former professional sprinter. Her brother and three other close male relatives all were unusually strong, with one of them a construction worker able to unload heavy curbstones by hand.

    In the mother, one copy of the gene is mutated and the other is normal; the boy has two mutated copies. One almost definitely came from his father, but no information about him has been disclosed. The mutation is very rare in people.

    The boy is healthy now, but doctors worry he could eventually suffer heart or other health problems.

    In the past few years, scientists have seen great potential in myostatin-blocking strategies.

    Internet marketers have been hawking "myostatin-blocking" supplements to bodybuilders, though doctors say the products are useless and perhaps dangerous.

    Some researchers are trying to turn off the myostatin gene in chickens to produce more meat per bird. And several breeds of cattle have natural variations in the gene that, aided by selective breeding, give them far more muscle and less fat than other steer.

    link goes here ... http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/natio...984793,00.html
    dead, yet alive.
  • rewing3
    I really don't care
    • Jun 2004
    • 5504

    #2
    Crazy shit.
    Common Sense is not Common at all.

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    • LV-8
      Platinum Poster
      • Jun 2004
      • 1167

      #3
      Dude, that nuts!!!

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      • djway
        Getting Somewhere
        • Jun 2004
        • 198

        #4
        Nutcase.

        We could all become fucking buff w/ no fat if we had that bit of protien blocked....who needs 2 work out when u can modify DNA!

        --djway

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        • Jenks
          I'm kind of a big deal.
          • Jun 2004
          • 10250

          #5
          I look forward to the day humans mutate.

          X Men really isn't that impossible on some levels.

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          • Civic_Zen
            Platinum Poster
            • Jun 2004
            • 1116

            #6
            Originally posted by Jenks
            I look forward to the day humans mutate.

            X Men really isn't that impossible on some levels.
            Along with this and the ability to make ourselves stronger, I think we will further our mental capacity. Being able to use remote viewing, telepathy, telekinetic energy and manipulation. Definetely not impossible.
            "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
            "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
            - Thomas Jefferson

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            • Jenks
              I'm kind of a big deal.
              • Jun 2004
              • 10250

              #7
              Also not impossible is implementing computer parts with human parts,to lengthen our lives, or make ourselves more efficient.

              Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.

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              • Civic_Zen
                Platinum Poster
                • Jun 2004
                • 1116

                #8
                Originally posted by Jenks
                Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.
                I feel the same way. Although it is kind of scary. Implants are a great idea unless they are input into the brain, and use any sort of external communication. There would be a new brain virus every week roaming on some futuristic wireless net which your brain is attached to.
                "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
                "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
                - Thomas Jefferson

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                • asdf_admin
                  i use to be important
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 12798

                  #9
                  could you imagine a direct download of a kiss set to your mind by a firewire ...

                  takes the saying "Intel Inside" to a new level.
                  dead, yet alive.

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                  • factorg
                    Addiction started
                    • Jun 2004
                    • 265

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Civic_Zen
                    Originally posted by Jenks
                    I look forward to the day humans mutate.

                    X Men really isn't that impossible on some levels.

                    Along with this and the ability to make ourselves stronger, I think we will further our mental capacity. Being able to use remote viewing, telepathy, telekinetic energy and manipulation. Definetely not impossible.
                    Originally posted by Jenks
                    Also not impossible is implementing computer parts with human parts,to lengthen our lives, or make ourselves more efficient.
                    Originally posted by Civic_Zen
                    Originally posted by Jenks
                    Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.
                    I feel the same way. Although it is kind of scary. Implants are a great idea unless they are input into the brain, and use any sort of external communication. There would be a new brain virus every week roaming on some futuristic wireless net which your brain is attached to.
                    I agree and am right there with you guy's

                    The possibilities are endless, as we go further forward with these things then other possibilities become possible and real. I get excited when i think about it

                    Originally posted by Jenks
                    Raises some moral issues tho,
                    these people and there so called morals will hopefully not slow the process down!
                    "..truth has a habit of marching on.."

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                    • Alpinevpr
                      Getting Somewhere
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 249

                      #11
                      Originally posted by asdf_admin
                      could you imagine a direct download of a kiss set to your mind by a firewire ...

                      takes the saying "Intel Inside" to a new level.
                      That is the shit. Plug my ass (well head I mean) into the computer and play whatever song I wanted to when I wanted to. Although that just reminded me of Johnny Mnemonic. Horrible movie.

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                      • Jenks
                        I'm kind of a big deal.
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 10250

                        #12
                        ^^Isn't your head already plugged into your ass?





                        badabing!

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                        • mylexicon
                          Addiction started
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 339

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Jenks
                          Also not impossible is implementing computer parts with human parts,to lengthen our lives, or make ourselves more efficient.

                          Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.
                          The only moral issue i have: what happens when your operating system blue screens?
                          you can't just reboot a human. But obviously i'm still willing to support
                          research
                          Be a vegan......eat freedom fries..

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                          • fumanchu182
                            Angantyr The Ruthless
                            • Jun 2004
                            • 962

                            #14
                            Originally posted by mylexicon
                            Originally posted by Jenks
                            Also not impossible is implementing computer parts with human parts,to lengthen our lives, or make ourselves more efficient.

                            Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.
                            The only moral issue i have: what happens when your operating system blue screens?
                            you can't just reboot a human. But obviously i'm still willing to support
                            research
                            Instead of a digweed set you get this:


                            Hahahahahah..... and a small humming noise to go with it.
                            The sailors of the United States Navy are among the most disciplined, devoted, and well-trained fighting men the world has ever known. They drink gasoline and piss fire, The spit bullets and shit bombs, and will swim across the ocean with a knife in their teeth just for the chance to carve up those that threaten their homeland.

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                            • Civic_Zen
                              Platinum Poster
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 1116

                              #15
                              Originally posted by mylexicon
                              Originally posted by Jenks
                              Also not impossible is implementing computer parts with human parts,to lengthen our lives, or make ourselves more efficient.

                              Raises some moral issues tho, of which i don't give a fuck about.
                              The only moral issue i have: what happens when your operating system blue screens?
                              you can't just reboot a human. But obviously i'm still willing to support
                              research
                              I think this would only be an Issue if MicroSuxx was programming the firmware for the chips to be implanted. We'll get Linus to program all of that instead.
                              "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)
                              "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
                              - Thomas Jefferson

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