They had noticed that if they added double-stranded RNA to an organism, it somehow broke down any matching messenger RNA, muting the gene whose instructions are carried by that mRNA.
All hell breaks loose when a handsome deaf-mute manservant (Dave Franco) arrives to their convent after fleeing a death sentence for sleeping with his lord's wife.
Sadly, a weight fell on his toe three weeks before the fight, broke a bone and rendered his powers mute.
After all, the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, has scarcely had a screen break since the Northern Rock story broke and most people are reaching for the mute button the moment he appears.
It could bump up the frequency of breaking news notifications when you're using leisure app, but mute them in the car.
Muted and voluntarily immobile, so as not to break the fragile web that kept him alive, his eyes tracked me as I entered the cubicle.
But perhaps we should take responsibility, break the cycle, and reclaim our manners (or at least locate the mute button).
So Pink made its noise, the towers stayed mute, the mob flicked on lighters at the end and then we spent three hours breaking the amps down and loading the truck.
The first entry in the "Friday the 13th" franchise, in which a mute, vaguely supernatural maniac punished camp counsellors, was released in 1980, two years after "Halloween," and a (dismembered) arms race broke out.
As the sanity meter drops the effects start to break the 4th wall, with things such as the blue screen of death and a black and white display, as well as no sound with the word "mute" shown.
