Mouse, Stripped Of A Key Gene, Resists Diabetes

[Robb]

Mouse, Stripped Of A Key Gene, Resists Diabetes

MADISON - An engineered mouse, already known to be immune to the weight gain ramifications of a high-calorie, high-fat diet, now seems able to resist the onset of diabetes.

The mouse, stripped of a gene known as SCD-1, is apparently impervious to the negative effects of the type of diet that, for many people, has significant health and social consequences.

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The new finding is important because it provides critical genetic and biochemical clues to diet, obesity and the onset of a disease that affects as much as 6 percent of the U.S. population.

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[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. this would be a key to other diseases such as AIDS and MS I believe

any of the diseases where the body's immune system goes awry.

[mike_c]

2. hmmm, it sounds more like it blocks Type II diabetes....

...rather than Type 1.