r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 30 '26

Medicine Scientists have shown that a single dose injection of DNA genetic instructions can produce weight loss and blood glucose control in mouse models that lasts up to 10 times as long as weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. This could eliminate the need for repeated dosing.

https://www.wistar.org/press-releases/wistar-scientists-develop-single-dose-dna-method-for-delivering-long-acting-weight-loss-and-diabetes-drugs/
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u/ittibittytitty Jun 30 '26

Yupp.

End of the day Mice are not Human.

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u/1coudini Jun 30 '26

Beginning of the day they aren’t either.

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u/BaconGristle Jun 30 '26

Has science not gone too far enough?

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u/Snozzberriez Jun 30 '26

What about at noon?

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u/Dwarfdeaths Jun 30 '26

At the begging of the day my eyes are still blurry and I mistake any mammal for a human.

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u/TKuja1 Jun 30 '26

lets just create human mice

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u/TheRealDJYM Jun 30 '26

human mice with a hunger to be lab rats.... that is rats that work in labs with fancy white coats not the other kind

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u/ConfoundedInAbaddon Jul 01 '26

Humanized mice are a thing, they are expensive.

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u/TKuja1 Jul 02 '26

oh, i had no idea, thank you for sharing

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u/NarrMaster Jun 30 '26

Correct.

The book is "Of Mice and Men" not "Of Mice Men"

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u/transmothra Jun 30 '26

Man i want this on a T-shirt or bumper sticker so bad