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Hunger game: light-controlled appetite
An intragastric implant (blue and gray) creates a feeling of fullness by pressing on the stomach, and when activated by a fiber-optic laser (black) kills cells that produce the hunger hormone ghrelin. Credit: from Lee et al/ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
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