There's a kid in Germany right now being treated as a freak by the world's press.

The reason is that he was born without the genetic code for producing a protein called myostatin. Scientists hope that, by turning off myostatin production in people with muscular dystrophy, they can overcome the muscle wasting in the disease. A closer study of myostatin, its production and what happens when it's not produced, could also help in studies of aging.

But don't tell that to the world's press. Get your tickets to the freak show. He's somewhere in Berlin. Step right up!

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