High-fat diet may raise cancer risk by changing gut stem cells
A study of mice suggests that a high-fat diet boosts production of stem cells in the gut – and alters other cells to behave like stem cells – increasing risk of cancer.
March 3, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: boosts-production, cells, diet, high-fat-diet, increasing-risk, mice-suggests, on call diets, other-cells, stem-cells, the-gut
Stem cells offer potential for eco-friendly meat
The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown from stem cells also holds potential as an ethical and greener source for meat.
May 22, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: greener-source, made-it-possible, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, scientific-progress, stem-cells
Insulin, Nutrition Found To Prevent Blood Stem Cell Differentiation In Fruit Flies
UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition keep blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a finding that has implications for studying inflammatory response and blood development in response to dietary changes in humans…
March 13, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-cells, drosophila, immune system / vaccines, keep-blood, oncalldiets, stem-cell, stem-cells, the-common, ucla
