I don’t care what you say, this has to be a kick in the teeth to any kid that ever took a running leap off his garage in his superman underoos only to brake his arm or worse in the drive way.
The New England Journal of Medicine is reporting that in Berlin , Germany there is a child not yet 5 years old that can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended outward.
It has twice the muscle of other kids his age and half their body fat.
What’s his secret?
Red Kryptonite.
Sike. Just kidding.
Scientists studying this walking child freak have concluded through DNA testing that this child’s super-human strength comes from the result of a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth.
His mutant power evidently blocks a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth, so when it is all said and done this kid will be growing muscles out of his ass.
Evidently he has the exact same condition that scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore created in a lab when they created "mighty mice" in the mid-nineties by "turning off" the same gene.
"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."
Hmm. So now that they have created a real life superman using tried and true comic book science we are supposed to just look the other way at the fact that this kid suddenly appeared seven years after mad scientists at Johns Hopkins University fucked around and created “mighty mice”?
Hmm. Right.
Although researchers won’t reveal the child’s identity they say that his mother is a 24-year-old former professional sprinter and her brother and three other close male relatives are also disturbingly strong, with one of them a construction worker who is known to be able to unload heavy curbstones by hand with no assistance from mere mortals.
What researchers need to do is see if they can track down this kid’s father and see if he is a big foot.
To discourage too much attention focused on the child freak scientist are trying to direct our attention on how they can potentially prevent diseases like diabetes as well as treat people with muscular dystrophy with steroid like drugs because of this.
And that is supposed to make us forget that cock diesel five year old running around in Germany somewhere talking in broken English “Me Grimlock, me hungry”.
I don’t think so.