Super Strong 'Mighty Mouse' Created by Swiss Scientists

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Swiss scientists created super-strong mice, with muscles twice as strong as those of normal mice, by tweaking a gene. The "Mighty Mouse" is stronger, faster and can run twice the distance of ordinary mice before showing signs of fatigue, according to a team of scientists from the Laboratory of Integrative Systems Physiology, in Lausanne.
The team, working in collaboration with scientists from the University of Lausanne and California's Salk Institute, created the super mice by reducing the function of a natural inhibitor -- called NCoR1 -- which they believe may be responsible for how strong and powerful muscles can be.
Without the inhibitor, the muscle tissue developed much more effectively, according to the study, published in the journal Cell. Similar results also were observed in worms.

Of mice and men. When they try something similar on a human, they'll create a rat. Or a worm.

How do you say, "here I come to save the day" in German?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLXJ-II3b0

So they have broken the myostatin inhibiter?

Bethink yourself of the holes in the swiss cheeze this new and improved Swiss mouse would be able to make.

Obsessed with unlocking genetic potential, Danner experiments with a tadpole (which breaks through the bowl he's keeping it in), and a pregnant cat, whose kitten displays incredible strength and speed, managing to maul larger animals. Fearing the cat may be uncontrollable, Danner poisons it. When his wife becomes pregnant with their first child, Danner duplicates his experiment on his unknowing wife.

what is the price of all that strength?

what is the price of all that strength?

"Anything he wants."

So now the scientists are working on super strong cheese?

what is the price of all that strength?

"Anything he wants."

Captain: What is the price of all that speed? ls your mouse tired?
Colonel: '"Tired?'"
Captain: My mouse ran the pace he's been taught to run... and he's still strong. Send him up the chain, Rube.
Rube (to Mouse): MOUSE! Up the chain!
Mouse: Squeak!
Colonel (to neoMouse): On the double, up the chain.
neoMouse: Squeak!
Captain: What about spirit?
Colonel: l believe you mean AQ, Captain. Aggressive qualities. Much higher. Much better.

So now the scientists are working on super strong cheese?

You mean, the one which would be knocking them out even from downwind?

what is the price of all that strength?

There are both animals and people who have Myostatin inhibitors. They basically can't produce much body fat at all. Fat just turns into muscle. As a modern person there is no draw back at all. You are twice as strong your heart muscles are twice as strong and you look like Arnold in his good days without much work or exercise. In evolutionary terms it is bad because you are an eating machine and you can't store fat to live off of in lean times. So in a modern society with little chance of going hungry you are basically the "High School Football hero" for life.