No, you're thinking of sewer rats & wild mice, the ones you keep as pets are actually fairly clean, and both are extremely intelligent. That being said, this would make a great "Ben Jr." or "Little Willard".

The Pentagon will probalbly incorporate them into their arsenal of roided super soldiers!

I really am not a fan of forcing genetic changes on anything. I think that evolution will make it happen if it's meant to.

That being said, I had a pet albino mouse when I was a kid. He was sweet and clean and to my knowledge never worshipped Satan.

as scary crazy as this is, the fact that they live twice as long is really interesting. Also I wonder if they are really more aggressive or if it is just that they are so much more active so they have more time where they get aggressive.

They already have things that remove the bodies need to sleep.

You can have super soldiers with incredible endurance who don't need to sleep, with the only side effects of extreme aggression!

I'd volunteer to have this done to me. Who doesn't want to have amazing endurance and a longer life (and feel like im 20 at the age of 40)?

Mice might be a bit smelly, but they are really smart and funny.

So many new overlords to welcome, so little time.

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Rats, yes. Mice no. Mice are horrible. I've had three adult mice, with 12 babies. Fuzzys too! Their eyes were almost ready to open.
The next day, no babies, just a couple bloody patches and random shaving caked organs.
I've seen a mother mouse eating the skin off the back end of a baby mouse while it crawled away, squeaking.

It might start with a cull due to over crowding or human scent on their babies. But once they can't eat just one, oh no. They go on to eat baby after baby without rhyme or reason. No matter how many they give birth to.

How do you think all the food you've ever eaten ever got to it's present state?

Algernon approves.

/obscure?

Just to clarify, the techniques used in the published studies were transgenic technology rather than gene therapy. Which is actually probably closer to what GATTACA was talking about (though not exactly the same) in that it would only really be possible to see something like this in humans if we all decided at some point in the future that we want to make our kids in vitro]/i] rather than the (significantly more fun) old fashioned way and that we're willing to fundamentally alter their genomes.

Gene therapy (the alteration of genes or the transcription of genes via the introduction of engineered viral vectors into an adult patient), which would be what is required for adults to incorporate these sorts of changes into them, is a much less proven technology, and is quite different from what the authors were talking about.

All I want to know is, if I feed super mice to my snake, will he be a super snake, cause that is significantly more interesting to me. Mice are cute, then they bite you, then you feed them to a real pet.

I want to make a secret of nimh reference, but the literary card's already been played.

Flowers for Algernon?