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Exclusive: UC Berkeley startup bets on jumping genes for GLP-1 gene therapy

The new generation of weight loss medicines does an unprecedented job of keeping off the pounds — if people stay on the drugs. Yet numerous studies suggest most of those who start taking GLP-1 drugs quit the medicines within a year.

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The new generation of weight loss medicines does an unprecedented job of keeping off the pounds — if people stay on the drugs. Yet numerous studies suggest most of those who start taking GLP-1 drugs quit the medicines within a year.

One startup has a bold solution to the problem. Addition Therapeutics is working on a genetic medicine that would turn a patient’s liver cells into little factories to permanently pump out their own weight loss drugs, the startup told Endpoints News in an exclusive interview.

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