Researchers believe that this unique facet in these people's genetic makeup could be the key to a cure. Unfortunately, it's not as if the scientists can phone up the 13 and get them in for more testing. That's because the study was a meta-study, which took anonymized data sets from a dozen previously-conducted experiment. The information was then crunched, big-data style, to look for abnormalities that could provide a signal for future research.

Since there's no way to tell the 13 about their gift, a new set of studies will have to be run in order to find more. We'd crack wise about how researchers need to invent Cerebro, the X-Men's mutant-sniffing computer -- but don't want to be glib at such an important breakthrough.