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Could Diet Change Help Treat Blood Cancer?


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Could Diet Change Help Treat Blood Cancer or Transplant Patients?

A team of researchers from California and Japan has found that an essential amino acid plays a crucial role in the creation of blood stem cells—a discovery the scientists say could offer a potential alternative to chemotherapy and radiation in treating blood cancer patients.

The amino acid valine, which people obtain by eating protein, appears key to the formation of blood stem cells. Mice deprived of the protein building block for two to four weeks stopped making new blood cells altogether, according to the new study, published Thursday in Science.

Read more: Scientific American

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2 weeks water only starvation causes human bone marrow cells to go through a transdifferentiation process where they revert back to stem cells then respecialise into specific tissues.

 

 

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