20 13 In April, the European Research Council indicated that it would provide 9 million dollars to support the project. As of 20 13, the project has received 7 million euros of funding.

The secret of the smart slimming chip developed by Swiss researchers is that it contains transgenic cells. Fussenegger wrote in the research report: "Closed-circuit artificial gene network runs in it, which may become a means of treatment in the future."

It may take 10 years for the chip to go on the market on a large scale. By then, the finished product of this slimming chip may be only the size of a coin and can be implanted into the arms of obese people. The inventor said that after the advent of this chip, it can not only replace diet pills, but also replace liposuction, gastric banding and other invasive weight loss methods.

Stephen Raili, a professor at Cambridge University in England, pointed out that there are still many problems to be solved in applying this slimming chip to human beings, such as how to ensure the survival of cells in the chip and how to make these foreign cells resist human rejection.