Researchers unlock a new means of growing intestinal stem cells
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have shown that they can grow unlimited quantities of intestinal stem cells, then stimulate them to develop … Read more
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Stem cells converted to living intestinal patches
More than 20,000 Danes suffer from chronic inflammatory bowel disease. They are treated with expensive medication that only dampens their symptoms, or have the affected … Read more
Intestinal flora linked to health of obese people
An international consortium MetaHIT, which includes the research group of Jeroen Raes, has published in the leading journal Nature that there is a link between … Read more
Gut taste mechanisms are abnormal in diabetes sufferers
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered that the way the gut “tastes” sweet food may be defective in sufferers of type 2 diabetes, … Read more
More intestinal cells can absorb larger particles
The small intestine employs more cells and mechanisms than scientists previously thought to absorb relatively large particles, such as those that could encapsulate protein-based therapeutics … Read more
Bacteria identified that may lead to inflammatory bowel disease in certain individuals
Certain bacteria that inhabit the intestine provide the environmental trigger that initiates and perpetuates chronic intestinal inflammation in individuals who are genetically susceptible to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a study led by Harvard S…
