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Nature 423, 119 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423119b
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Cinema: Return of the mutants
Adam Rutherford1
Science fact is the loose basis for the fantasy in the current spate of movies based on comic-book characters. Peter Parker was bitten by a genetically modified spider last year to become Spider-Man (in the original 1960s' comic the spider was radioactive, but that was a different age).
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