Is Alzheimer’s Transmissible Through Bone Marrow Cells?
A mouse experiment suggested familial Alzheimer’s disease may be transmitted through bone marrow stem cells, but the implications of the findings were limited. The research involved transplanting bone marrow stem cells from mice engineered to carry a familial Alzheimer’s disease mutation into healthy mice, which led to “rapid development of Alzheimer’s disease pathological hallmarks,” reported […]
No evidence that physical activity calorie-equivalent labelling changes food purchasing
An experiment carried out across ten workplace cafeterias found no significant change in the overall number of calories purchased when food and drink labels showed the amount of physical activity required to burn off their calories. More than three in five UK adults are overweight or obese, increasing their risk of diseases such as type […]
Physicists announce first results from The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment’s final dataset
Over nearly nine years, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment captured an unprecedented five and a half million interactions from subatomic particles called neutrinos. Now, the international team of physicists of the Daya Bay collaboration has reported the first result from the experiment’s full dataset — the most precise measurement yet of theta13, a key […]