It is a tale of mice and men. Or, rather, of men who want to be mice. Once researchers at the University of Pennsylvania produced a ''Schwarzenegger mouse" half a dozen years ago by injecting it with a gene that produced huge muscles, athletes began contacting lab director H. Lee Sweeney, volunteering to become human lab rats. (Full article: 342 words)

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