Neuroscientist Mark Mattson at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and author of the 2022 book The Intermittent Fasting Revolution, has been studying fasting for 30 years. He ...

Thus, in 2018, they observed that during fasting, intestinal stem cells begin to use lipids as an energy source, instead of carbohydrates. They also demonstrated that this process led to a ...

Fasting has been practised across civilisations, throughout history, and in various religions and cultures. Millions of Muslims across the world are currently observing Ramadan, a month of fasting ...

A study suggests that “chief” cells in the stomach act as reserve stem cells that are activated by tissue damage and may be the long-sought source of gastric cancer. “This is the first definitive ...

Scientists have long proposed a hierarchy in HSCs that is related to their survivability. At the top of the hierarchy are specialized stem cells that produce nitric oxide (NO), which they use to ...