{"id":8323,"date":"2004-06-24T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2004-06-24T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T12:35:20","slug":"superboy-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8323","title":{"rendered":"Superboy Found!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading like something out of the origin issue of a Marvel comic, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/24\/science\/24muscle.html\">NY Times<\/a> is reporting that scientists have discovered a young boy with an amazing genetic abnormality that gives him super strength. The abnormality is a double absence of the gene for producing the chemical myostatin, and had previously been found in mice and cattle, but never in humans before. While the long-term health effects are unknown, right now the 4 year-old boy is lifting more than my girlfriend does when she lifts weights. The discovery of course means that there are possibilities for treating other people with muscle-wasting diseases, but more importantly it raises the prospect that we&#8217;ll all be able to genmod ourselves to Schwarzeneger-like phyisiques in the not-to-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading like something out of the origin issue of a Marvel comic, the NY Times is reporting that scientists have discovered a young boy with an amazing genetic abnormality that gives him super strength. The abnormality is a double absence of the gene for producing the chemical myostatin, and had previously been found in mice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superboy Found!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}