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Acknowledgements We thank Ann Cloos and Swetha Srinivasaraghavan for their assistance with hPSC culture and hypothalamic differentiation, Solomon Shepherd for providing images of live POMC-GFP cells, Anne White for providing anti-POMC antibodies, and Ben Jones from Imperial College London for helpful discussions