2007-11-08

SuperMouse!


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Genetically engineered super mouse stuns scientists

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SuperMouse!

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"They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees."

~ Richard W. Hanson, Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve

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The mouse can run up to six kilometres at a speed of 20 metres per minute for five hours or more without stopping, British newspaper The Independent reports. [...] The engineered mouse also lives longer, has more sex and can breed well into old age, and eats more without getting fat, the paper reports. [...] But he said the supermouse was “very aggressive” and scientists weren't yet sure why.
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