New Science Frontier: Making Men Out of Mice…!!!

It can run for hours at 20 metres per minute without getting tired. It lives longer, has more sex, and eats more without gaining weight. Could the science that created this supermouse be applied to humans? asks The Independent.

“The mouse can run up to six kilometres (3.7 miles) at a speed of 20 metres per minute for five hours or more without stopping. Scientists said that this was equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break. Although it eats up to 60 per cent more food than an ordinary mouse, the modified mouse does not put on weight. It also lives longer and enjoys an active sex life well into old age – being capable of breeding at three times the normal maximum age.”

Any volunteers to emulate the new mice…???

(The illutration above: “On March 16, 1931, this George Corley illustration of Charle Chaplin with Mickey Mouse appeared in The Portland News. Chaplin had insisted that a Mickey Mouse cartoon accompany the first showings of City Lights.”)