Epic research endeavor reveals cause of deadly digestive disease in children
Nearly 10 years ago, a group of Israeli clinical researchers emailed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) geneticist Len Pennacchio
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Higher salt intake can cause gastrointestinal bloating: New analysis suggests that America’s high prevalence of bloating could be reduced by lowering sodium intake
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that individuals reported more gastrointestinal
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How microbiome is disrupted during IBD: Human Microbiome Project
A new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT
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Cancer prevention drug also disables H. pylori bacterium
A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than one trick in
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Human microbiome metabolites tip the scale in intestinal E. coli infections: Human Organ Chips uncover human microbiome metabolites that enhance colon injury by enterohemorrhagic E. coli in human-mouse comparative study
It remains mysterious why humans get infected by some bacterial or viral pathogens relatively easily while animals that have very
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‘Gut-on-a-chip’ system shows intestinal barrier disruption is the onset initiator of gut inflammation: ‘Once the gut barrier has been damaged, probiotics can be harmful just like any other bacteria’
The first study investigating the mechanism of how a disease develops using human organ-on-a-chip technology has been successfully completed by
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Gut sense: Neural superhighway conveys messages from gut to brain in milliseconds
If you’ve ever felt nauseous before an important presentation, or foggy after a big meal, then you know the power
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Insights from metabolites get us closer to a test for chronic fatigue syndrome
A study led by researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public
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