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Geneticists engineer marathon mice

Endurance animals point way to athletic enhancement.

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  1. WangY-X., et al. PLoS Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020294 (2004).

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Pearson, H. Geneticists engineer marathon mice. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040823-2

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