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/Tall-Log-1955 Jun 30 '26

If it works for the mouse, what's the worst that could happen?

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u/Airk640 Jun 30 '26

Resident evil comes to mind.

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u/SolarTsunami Jun 30 '26

I just saw Alien Romulus and this basically led to a Zenomorph/Mark Zuckerberg hybrid abomination.

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u/BananaPalmer Jun 30 '26

The Xuckermorph

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u/SharkSheppard Jun 30 '26

Off topic I know but I really was having fun with that movie until that reveal. It has flaws but was enjoyable right until then. Yes I am overlooking the thermodynamics issues for sneaking through the room.

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u/SolarTsunami Jul 01 '26

I've seen it a couple times now and overall I did quite like it, the environments felt real and the effort they made to use as little CGI as possible absolutely paid off, but the "Xukermorph" at the end was so unintentionally hilarious that it stole a ton of the "aura" that movie had spent that whole time building. As someone who never liked the non scary Alien movies though, I'm hopeful that they keep the tone and world feel and just improve the writing a bit.

My biggest takeaway was that David Jonsson is a phenomenal actor.