‘World's fattest mouse’ appears immune to diabetes

College Confidential Community
1

<p><a href=“‘World's fattest mouse' appears immune to diabetes | New Scientist”>‘World's fattest mouse' appears immune to diabetes | New Scientist;

<p>Discuss</p>

2

<p>rofl…sorry i have to be the immature one, but…that mouse makes me laugh…it’s so huge. lol</p>

<p>okay i’m done</p>

3

<p>LMFA0o0o0o00o0o0o0</p>

<p>That mouse is obese…
People been leaving too many french fries around</p>

4

<p>Hahahaha… that mouse is so fat…</p>

5

<p>i wonder what it would be like to find one his mouse holes in your wall when you got home one day? lol</p>

6

<p>Would there be a way to implant the DNA of the diabetes-immune mouse into human babies, or something like that?</p>

7

<p>probably not. Rodent DNA is completely different from human dna. However, They might be able to find a way to make a synthetic model of the immune-mouse dna.</p>

8

<p>Theoretically yes, through gene therapy (theoretically, you can mix DNA of any two organisms together, but there are MANY risks involved, risks that you won’t want to take with human babies).</p>

<p>But really, implantation of the mouse DNA isn’t necessary, considering that humans and mice share the majority of their DNA for protein synthesis. The genes responsible for the proteins in the mentioned article are probably similar in both human and mouse genomes - so then the next step is to identify the concurrent locus in the human chromosome.</p>

9

<p>aww it’s so cute!! :)</p>