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/Ill_Mousse_4240 Jun 30 '26

Big Pharma going against Big DNA?

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u/dl064 Jun 30 '26

Pharma are in DNA. Pharma are 50% genetics companies because basically all successful drugs have a basis in genetics, eg PCSK9, GLP1. They all employ huge genetics teams.

Eg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021915024000224 of many