Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have identified a metabolic switch that determines whether intestinal stem cells become absorptive or secretory cells. Manipulating the enzyme OGDH either fuels cell expansion ...
Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway that leads to increased insulin production.
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Rapidly evolving technology could one day allow you to skip an invasive medical procedure in favor of sending your labs to the doctor by uploading a screenshot from your phone.
Mar 29, 2025
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While the promise of longer evenings can be appealing to many after a long, dark winter, the looming "spring forward" comes with a range of potential health concerns.
Mar 10, 2025
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Widely used by the food industry, emulsifiers—a type of food additive—are found in many daily foods (sliced bread, ice creams, crème fraîche, plant milks, etc.). Given their omnipresence in our diet, the health effects of ...
Feb 11, 2025
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A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an ailment suffered by millions of people globally.
Feb 6, 2025
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Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats. It turns out that two of these microbially-modified bile acids may affect our risk—in opposite directions—for ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Clinical trials testing cancer immunotherapies have significantly under-represented Black patients. So while these treatments have resulted in dramatically improved outcomes for some patients, researchers from the University ...
Nov 25, 2024
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Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine have found that tapping into the nervous system could help reduce the gut inflammation that drives inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Nov 20, 2024
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A research team from Shenyang Agricultural University, led by Dr. Bin Li, has highlighted the potential of malvidin-3-O-galactoside (M3G), a blueberry-derived anthocyanin, to improve colonic mucosal barrier function and alleviate ...
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