Karan Soni

The makers always wanted the movie to be diverse because 'Deadpool' takes place in the 'X-Men' universe. The mutants are kind of outcast, the minorities as compared to human race. They recognized it well that the cast needs to be diverse.

Paul Nurse

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

British Scientist

Gavin Hood

In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

South African Director

Will Arnett

With 'Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety.

Canadian Actor

Rob Liefeld

The mutants I like - Wolverine. The action heroes I like, they have weapons; they are more visceral. So I filled the comic with characters like that, and we got big results.

American Writer

Simon Kinberg

In the 'Days Of Future Past' comic, the aim is to go back in time to preserve peace for the lives of mutants in the future.

English Writer

Julian Dennison

I had fun playing a mutant. I never thought I would. Like, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would.

New Zealander Actor

Neal Adams

Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.

American Artist

Oscar Isaac

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

Guatemalan Actor

Taapsee Pannu

X-Men' or 'Avengers!' I want to be a mutant or an Avenger.

Indian Actress

Used often in science and sci-fi to describe beings with new traits.

Science and Fiction

Sometimes implies abnormality or undesirability in casual contexts.

Negative Connotations

Common in biology-related discussions about genetics and evolution.

Biological Context

Describes genes or characters that have undergone a change.

Genetic Changes

Highlights traits appearing suddenly or not commonly found.

Unexpected Traits

Not always negative; can be a neutral description in science.

Non-Negative Use

 doubled the lifespan of the little worm. So you can see in black, after a month -- they're very short-lived; that's why we like to study them for studies of aging -- in black, after a month, the normal worms are all dead. But at that time, most of the mutant worms are still alive. And it isn't until twice as long

Cynthia Kenyon:...

 toxins the Pseudomonas secretes so now you're looking at an experiment and in the left hand test-tube that's wild-type Pseudomonas it's doing quorum sensing and it's secreted these toxins and when it secretes those toxins the bacteria turn green in the middle test tube that's a mutant that we've made where

Quorum sensing: Bacteria...

 And the way that we do this is to delve deeply into the mind of the fly and begin to untangle its circuitry using genetics. We take our dopamine receptor mutant flies and we genetically restore, or cure, the dopamine receptor by putting a good copy of the dopamine receptor gene back into the fly brain.

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 this for a long time in humans but in flies we can actually test this and the way that we do this is to delve deeply into the mind of the fly and begin to untangle its circuitry using genetics we take our dopamine receptor mutant flies and we genetically restore or cure the

Your brain is more than...

 formaldehyde yeah bad things are gonna happen to you but if one molecule wanders into your nose you're gonna be just fine also formaldehyde is only formed when limonene reacts with ozone now ozone is that oxygen mutant that's in a thin layer of our atmosphere protecting

What’s in Air Freshener?...

 could find something because there had been a report of a long-lived mutant so we started to change jeans at random looking for long-lived animals and we were very lucky to find that mutations that damaged one single gene called daph to double the lifespan of the little

Experiments that hint of...

 occasionally one of these mutants does survive and the whole new species is born was the first hammerhead one of these one-in-a-million freaks could its hideously distorted head have opened up a whole new way of life

How did the Hammerhead...

 It's our romanticism. Mu-ta-tion. We are mutants. And if we don't deeply understand, if we don't integrate that we are mutants, we completely miss the story.

Philippe Starck: Design...

 a mutant lobster and this fearsome looking creature is not something you'd ever find at the end of your fishing hook these are some of the rarely seen

Mutant

Science and Fiction

Negative Connotations

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