Sebastian Alvarado hat sich nach Captain America und dem Hulk nun Ant-Man vorgenommen und nimmt diesen als Aufhänger für seine eigenen Forschungsergebnisse:

"In the pages of Marvel comic books, Ant-Man manipulates fictional subatomic particles in order to shrink and fight crime as one of Earth's mightiest heroes. In the real lab, biologists from Stanford and McGill universities have now achieved similar shrinking results by manipulating ants' DNA. The work won't produce any superpowers, but it presents a useful model for understanding how environmental factors can influence DNA expression to create a range of outcomes in a population."