Fad or science: DNA based cure for obesity/diabetes/host of others

[Jack 855]

Hope springs eternal in all of us:

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The scientists believe the technique could prevent or even cure obesity in those people with the faulty gene and negate the effects of a high-fat diet.

"Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual's metabolism," said senior author Professor Manolis Kellis, of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and of the Broad Institute.

"Knowing the causal variant underlying the obesity association may allow genome editing as a therapeutic avenue for individuals as risk.

"By manipulating this new pathway, we could switch between energy storage and energy dissipation providing new hope for a cure against obesity.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11812324/Have-scientists-at-Harvard-and-MIT-found-a-cure-for-obesity.html