Dr Mar Carmena is based at the School of Biological Sciences and has been studying fruit flies for the past 25 years.

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The University of Reading's School of Biological Sciences recently set up a questionnaire to measure how many people fed red kites in their gardens.

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"This was the final part of the puzzle, " said Dr Tom Clarke, a lecturer at the school of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), who led the research.

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Lead researcher Dr Mohammad Hajihosseini, from the university's school of biological sciences, said the discovery could eventually offer a permanent solution for tackling obesity - but it would take up to five or 10 years to translate the findings into humans.

BBC: Appetite control could be rewired, say researchers

Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.

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