Oh I wanted to speak more on the CRISPR technology and its potential medical applications for obesity, it will have massive impacts on future medical technology but in this specific case we have some really promising research.
http://news.mit.edu/2015/pathway-con...g-obesity-0819
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The researchers are currently establishing collaborations in academia and industry to translate their findings into obesity therapeutics. They are also using their approach as a model to understand the circuitry of other disease-associated regions in the human genome.
The paper is a tour de force, according to Evan Rosen, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research.
“The researchers present a near-complete unveiling of how a genetic risk allele in a noncoding region of the genome really works,” Rosen says. “It’s really an extraordinary piece of science, and it provides a template for how we should be approaching these genetic variants in all disease areas.”
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CRISPR will become a house hold name, but everyone should watch this very brief video on what it is, this stuff is incredibly exciting.