Transhumanism or Transmousism?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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What kinds of freaky things has science done to mice in an effort to engineer the next generation of humans?

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[li]Grown a human ear on a mouse[/li][li]Nearly doubled the mouse lifespan.[/li][li] Created mice that are “metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees. […] These genetically engineered mice also eat 60 percent more than controls, but remain fitter, trimmer and live and breed longer than wild mice in a control group. Some female PEPCK-Cmus mice have had offspring at 2.5 years of age, an amazing feat considering most mice do not reproduce after they are one year old.” :eek: You have to click through to the video.[/li][li] Increased mouse endurance by 50% without exercise. [/li][li] “Cured” cancer in mice[/li][/ul]

Other examples?

At what point do these mice escape, offsetting the global food chain, breed exponentially, evolve beyond humans and welcome us to our transmouse future?

:smack: :wink: :smack:

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The Secret of NIMH wasn’t written in a vacuum…!

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This is a job for Mouse_Maven! Where’s she gotten to anyway? I haven’t seen her around in a while.

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That worries me. Either she’s defected or they’ve captured her to wring her secrets from her in terrifying cheesy doom.

At any rate, we need some better mousetraps–titanium ones, possibly–stat!