Scientists solve 30-year mystery of a hidden nutrient that protects the brain and fights cancer - Science Daily

image: Crops at the ICTA-UAB build-integrated rooftop greenhouse, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Factors such as sunlight and stage-specific nutrient application determine crop success in urban agriculture, far beyond fixed recipes or miracle solutions. This is demonstrated by an eight-year study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) in its build-integrated rooftop greenhouse, thermally connected to the facility itself, and located within the university campus.

AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Dr. Joseph Baur, Dr. Khanh V. Doan, Dr. Sarmistha Mukherjee, and Ricardo A. Velázquez Aponte (University of Pennsylvania) for assistance with high-resolution respirometry. We also thank Dr. Saame Shaikh; Traci Davis (Genomics and Energy Metabolism Core, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nutrition and Obesity Research Center [UNC-CH NORC]); Dr. Corey Holman (University of Pennsylvania Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core [RMPC], RRID: SCR_022427); and Dr. John Millar (University of Pennsylvania Metabolic Tracer Resource) for assistance with body composition analysis, indirect calorimetry, tracer infusions, and metabolic tracer studies. We further thank Dr. Andrea Stout (University of Pennsylvania Cell and Developmental Biology Microscopy Core, RRID: SCR_022373) for assistance with widefield image acquisition; Dr. Pablo Ariel and Kristen White (UNC-CH Microscopy Services Laboratory) for TEM sample preparation; and Dr. Patrick Seale (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Anastasia Kralli (Johns Hopkins University), and Dr. Beverly Koller (UNC-CH) for sharing protocols and for helpful discussions. FundingA. M. A. was supported by NIH grant no.