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
Odorant Receptors Found In Non-Olfactory Cells
In a discovery suggesting that odors may have a far more important role in life than previously believed, scientists have found that heart, blood, lung and other cells in the body have the same receptors for sensing odors that exist in the nose…
April 8, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, cells, far-more, important-role, nose, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, other-cells, same-receptors, the-body