07 December 2023
Brain Holds Fast
Intermittent fasting is purported to counteract ageing. This study finds that neurogenesis is not promoted in the adult mouse hippocampus – one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage in dementia
Read the published research paper here
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- Image from work by Rut Gabarró-Solanas and colleagues
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in EMBO Reports, November 2023
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