He's hoping that the news about the New York City patient's mutant strain of HIV will encourage more physicians to order its test for such patients.

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Chris Surr, Mutant's head of sales and marketing, claims a lot of interest from banks, although no deal originating on the exchange has yet been closed.

ECONOMIST: Credit derivatives

They believe a single type of cell may be cancer's main growth engine:mutant stem cells that, though barely present, spawn other cells that then spark growth.

FORBES: Cancer Killer

She's played runaways, a mutant schoolgirl (in X-Men: The Last Stand) and a teenager tortured to death by Catherine Keener (in the yet-to-be released An American Crime).

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To nobody's surprise, therefore, though the mutant fly is capable of learning things, it forgets them within minutes.

ECONOMIST: Memory formation

Tykes will find plenty to keep them busy too, with Goosebumps' Attack of the Mutant, and Microsoft's Creative Writer 2, Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs, Magic School Bus Explores the Rain Forest, Plus for Kids, and 3D Movie Maker.

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In "Young Adult, " he's Matt Freehauf, who lives with his sister, builds mutant action figures, and names the whiskey he distills in the garage after a "Star Wars" cantina.

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Lansbury's team helped build the case, showing in 1998 that the mutant synuclein proteins formed clusters more readily than normal synuclein.

FORBES: Health

He located the mutant gene responsible for this monstrosity on one of the fly's chromosomes.

ECONOMIST: Genetic science

The artist makes her versions from salvaged precious metals that are twisted, pounded and interlocked with found objects from the natural world, looking like mutant effigies pulled from the well-appointed rubble of a millionaire's junkyard.

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