Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) have done a pilot study involving 12 patients with sickle cell disease that were cured. So far this inherited disease has been considered to be incurable. But a stem cell transplantation from he
A study following 792 persons for 13 years showed that shortened telomeres predict cancer. Telomeres are the caps at the end of chromosomes that protect the DNA between cell divisions. Initially all of the patients of the Northwestern and Harvard study were cancer free, but after 13 y
In the June 5 issue of Cell Stem Cell an article was published that described regeneration of the immune system by fasting. According to the lead author, Valter Longo both animal experiments and work with humans showed that with prolonged fasting the white blood cell count in the bloo