Mighty mice could yield human treatments
Super-sized animals may pave way for new drugs and bigger livestock.
It might sound like a cartoon scene from Tom and Jerry, but a biologist has come up with a real-life genetic recipe to create mice with four times more muscle than normal.
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I have been reading of super mice since 90's decade. For me, an skninny tennager during that time was a scientific solution that could be commercialized, and an elimination factor for dumb drugs such as steroids (effciency at 50% level and serious effects in health). Is my personal interest on this type of investigation the muscular development per se. More important of course, relief of associated ilnesses. But I am looking forward for the results of this type of investigations.
Posted by: Manuel Berrocal | August 30, 2007 02:27 PM
To already think of applications of this discovery for increased meat production is premature. The role of the myostatin & follistatin genes in normal animals has to be unravelled before tinkering with them.
Posted by: M R Raghunath | September 1, 2007 03:09 AM