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A healthy diet for stem cells

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Understanding how a low calorie intake slows ageing could revolutionize the way that we treat age-related diseases. One potential key to such treatments could be to enhance the local environment of stem cells. See Article p.490

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  1. Fresnida J. Ramos and Matt Kaeberlein are in the Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,

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  2. M.K. is also at the Institute of Aging Research, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan 523808, China.,

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Ramos, F., Kaeberlein, M. A healthy diet for stem cells. Nature 486, 477–478 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/486477a

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