And now, a lot of children in the area around the existing companies are coming down with illnesses from toxic emissions and the marine life is beginning to mutate.
Because mitochondria reproduce and mutate rapidly, it is possible that defects that appear during an individual's lifetime can trigger this harmful degeneration in the heart, he said.
Twenty years ago, George Romero probably didn't envision that his modest little horror movie, "Night of the Living Dead," would mutate into decades of celluloid zombies.