Stock Photo - 19 December 2022, Saxony, Leipzig: Biologist Kathrin Landgraf works on a schematic diagram of research findings on childhood obesity in the Pediatric Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leipzig. According to a press release from the University of Leipzig, a research team at the Faculty of Medicine was able to discover a new mechanism associated with an unusual expression of a gene, with the control of the feeling of hunger and with severe obesity in children. The goal of the research, he said, is to translate findings from genetic studies into future personalized treatments for obesity. Obesity and resulting diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. The causes of obesity are not yet fully understood. Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/dpa. - Leipzig/Saxony/Germany