Calcium: A Nutrient Deserving a Special Issue

Calcium: A Nutrient Deserving a Special Issue

Interest in calcium has continued since the 1980s when its role in promoting bone growth and retention was established in clinical trials of children and postmenopausal women. The human nutrition functions now attributed to calcium have expanded beyond bone health to include other conditions such as body weight maintenance. While most efforts have been focused on the findings that dietary intak...

a special issue: pharmaconosy

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Special Issue

Organoids: a Special Issue.

I am delighted to introduce this Special Issue of Development, focussing on the emerging field of organoid biology. An organoid can be defined as an artificially grown mass of cells or tissue that resembles an organ. This term has grown in use within the research field over the past few years as a result of advances in two distinct directions: the isolation and propagation of adult stem cell ni...