Monday, December 31, 2012

WELCOME!



Welcome to the Turn Fat People Into Mice blog. (Note size comparison of fat mouse with a 747)

I have started this very important blog and will update it regularly.

It offers timely posts documenting the cutting edge science re: rodentia obesus and the world's growing knowledge of how to make fat mice thin.
Though most successful fat research appears to be on mice, we are an equal opportunity site and do not discriminate against any rodent.

Therefore, for example, if research turning fat rats into thin rats comes to our attention, we will let you know about it.

We will even support turning fat people into rats, for example, if that's what it takes to help them.

It is important to have a searchable and accessible whole planet repository of the research that demonstrates our unparalleled ability to turn fat mice into thin mice.

Since we are experts at fixing fat mice, instead of trying to work it out for humans, where there are apparently at least 6000 genes relating to overweight/obesity, let's research how to turn fat people into mice.
"Scientists think that the mouse genome will be even important (sic) than the human genome to medicine and human welfare. That seems bizarre: why is that? The reason is that, because of the relatively 'recent' divergence of the mouse and human lineages from our common ancestor (about 75 million years ago), an astonishing 99% of mouse genes turn out to have analogues in humans. Not only that, but great tracts of code are syntenic - that means the genes appear in the same order in the two genomes...

The astonishingly close homology that has been revealed in the code between mouse and human genome extends to functionality. Many homologous genes have identical functions in the two species, anatomy, physiology and metabolism are similar and genetic disease pathology can be very similar. So the fact that we can study the mouse empirically, means that we can identify the functions of genes in people and both understand human disease pathology and create ways to treat it." (source)
Clearly, turning fat people into mice is a simpler matter.

Keep visiting the Turn Fat People Into Mice blog for timely posts documenting the cutting edge science re: rodentia gordo and the world's growing knowledge of how to make fat mice thin.

Fat mouse (lower) vs. skinny mouse:



2 comments:

Unknown said...

"I'm a victim of my Hypothalamus" said the fat mouse. "Ya know, you don't have to eat every time Dr. Applebaum refills the feeding bowl" said the thin mouse.

Michael Applebaum, MD, JD, FCLM said...

Hello, Ethan and welcome to Turn Fat People Into Mice.

I would not refill the feeding bowl of an already fat mouse so as to keep it fat.

Thanks for visiting.