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Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas'

Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas'

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According to a new study published in the journal Cell, a certain type of fasting diet can trigger the pancreas to regenerate itself. Of course, the researchers advise people not to try this without medical advice. BBC reports: In the experiments, mice were put on a modified form of the "fasting-mimicking diet." It is like the human form of the diet when people spend five days on a low calorie, low protein, low carbohydrate but high unsaturated-fat diet. It resembles a vegan diet with nuts and soups, but with around 800 to 1,100 calories a day. Then they have 25 days eating what they want -- so overall it mimics periods of feast and famine. Previous research has suggested it can slow the pace of aging. But animal experiments showed the diet regenerated a special type of cell in the pancreas called a beta cell. These are the cells that detect sugar in the blood and release the hormone insulin if it gets too high. There were benefits in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the mouse experiments. Type 1 is caused by the immune system destroying beta cells and type 2 is largely caused by lifestyle and the body no longer responding to insulin. Further tests on tissue samples from people with type 1 diabetes produced similar effects.
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Friday, February 24, 2017

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February 24, 2017 at 01:07PM

Agricultural robot scrutinizes plants so that we don't have to

Agricultural robot scrutinizes plants so that we don't have to

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The Crop Phenotyping Robot inspects a sorghum crop

Phenotyping is the process of observing the physical characteristics of a plant in order to assess its health. Although a necessary part of crop breeding, it's also a very tedious and time-consuming task, particularly when you've got a whole field full of plants to inspect … it's just the sort of job that it would be good to get a robot to do. Led by Prof. Stephen P. Long, a team at the University of Illinois has created just such a beast.

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