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	BROADCAST 1st October 2009 \| DURATION : 38 MINUTES Dr Sadaf Farooqi, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrooke's Hospital will look at the genetic factors which cause human obesity and the dramatic response that patients can experience following leptin therapy, including the critical role this hormone plays in the regulation of human food intake. A Cambridge Science Festival 2009 lecture. watch here
	BROADCAST 5th March 2010 \| DURATION : 4 MINUTES Why do we feel hunger, what drives some people to eat to excess and is there anything scientists can do about it? In this film, we meet several experts determined to both understand and control our primal need to eat. One team of researchers is gradually unraveling the genetics of appetite, translating the genetic code into cures for severe obesity. While another team is hunting for a drug that can control appetite, potentially eliminating obesity altogether. watch here
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	BROADCAST 16th November 2011 \| DURATION : 30 MINUTES When leptin failed to be a wonder solution to obesity, this hormone produced by fat cells, disappeared from the headlines. Twenty years on scientists now believe leptin is critical to how the body works, regulating appetite, the immune response, inflammation and depression. Vivienne Parry investigates. listen here

Video

	BROADCAST 1st October 2009 \| DURATION : 38 MINUTES Dr Sadaf Farooqi, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrooke's Hospital will look at the genetic factors which cause human obesity and the dramatic response that patients can experience following leptin therapy, including the critical role this hormone plays in the regulation of human food intake. A Cambridge Science Festival 2009 lecture. watch here
	BROADCAST 5th March 2010 \| DURATION : 4 MINUTES Why do we feel hunger, what drives some people to eat to excess and is there anything scientists can do about it? In this film, we meet several experts determined to both understand and control our primal need to eat. One team of researchers is gradually unraveling the genetics of appetite, translating the genetic code into cures for severe obesity. While another team is hunting for a drug that can control appetite, potentially eliminating obesity altogether. watch here
Audio

	BROADCAST 16th November 2011 \| DURATION : 30 MINUTES When leptin failed to be a wonder solution to obesity, this hormone produced by fat cells, disappeared from the headlines. Twenty years on scientists now believe leptin is critical to how the body works, regulating appetite, the immune response, inflammation and depression. Vivienne Parry investigates. listen here