Bad news for fans of the X-Men: It may take longer to create a new class of mutant superhumans than previous estimates suggested. The first direct measurements of human mutation rates reveal that the speed at which successive generations accumulate single-letter genetic changes is much slower than previously thought. Click here to read more in ScienceNews.
The Phillips DNA Project News
06/23/2011: Human mutation rate slower than thought
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