A large study from Chalmers University of Technology and Uppsala University, Sweden, suggests that gluten and certain types of carbohydrates called ‘fodmaps’ have less effect…
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Brown poop can indicate good health. Three-quarters of your poop consists of water and most of the rest is food your body didn’t digest. Once…
Chemical engineers have created a coating for microbes that could make it easier to deploy them to treat gastrointestinal disease. Credits: Felice Frankel Chemical engineers…
Irritable bowel syndrome. Credit: Scientific Animations An international study of more than 50,000 people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has revealed that IBS symptoms may…
Vitamin D supplements are not an effective treatment for easing painful symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a new study from the University of Sheffield…
Statins may be effective treatment for patients with ulcerative colitis. There may be good news for the nearly 1 million people battling ulcerative colitis, a…
A healthy plant-based diet was linked to a lower risk of getting COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an…
Food rich in vitamin D. Consuming higher amounts of Vitamin D – mainly from dietary sources – may help protect against developing young-onset colorectal cancer…
A new study from Queen Mary University of London has demonstrated that immune cells can be stimulated to assemble into special structures within pancreatic cancer.…
Healthy mouse intestine with long, finger-like villi (left) and intestine of mouse with environmental enteric dysfunction with shortened villi (right). Credit: Amrita Bhattacharjee A chronic…
Suono Bio, co-founded by MIT alumnus Carl Schoellhammer and two MIT professors, uses ultrasound waves to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract, leveraging research made…
MIT engineers have designed a new type of stent that could be used to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, or other tubular…
The fungus Candida albicans, a type of yeast, lives in the gut microbiota and plays a role in health and gastrointestinal disease. The scanning electron…
Sweeteners could cause gut bacteria to invade the intestine. New research has discovered that common artificial sweeteners can cause previously healthy gut bacteria to become…
To test whether or not this breakdown effect could protect the entire microbiome, the Northwestern team developed simplified microbial communities, which included various types of…
Unexpected reduction in symptoms may result from lower stress and more control over diet at home. Patients’ irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms unexpectedly improved when…
Artificial intelligence tool can be used for long-term tracking and management of chronic gastrointestinal ailments. An artificial intelligence tool under development at Duke University can…
Findings provide further evidence of relationship between the gut and lungs. Daily probiotic use was associated with fewer upper respiratory symptoms in overweight and older…
The researchers were able to monitor the virus’s growth in organoids derived from human intestinal cells. Pink and red show areas of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Credit:…