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Immunology

Scientists discover proteins in meat, milk and other foods suppress gut tumors

Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative medical sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered that food antigens like milk proteins help keep tumors from growing in our guts, specifically the small intestines. ...

Gastroenterology

Could your phone detect hepatic encephalopathy by listening to you read?

Research from the University of Michigan suggests that one day a phone app could be able to detect the development of hepatic encephalopathy in patients just by listening to them speak.

Oncology & Cancer

How AI can help researchers make esophageal cancer less deadly

Approximately 600 times a day, the esophagus ferries whatever is in your mouth down to your stomach. It's usually a one-way route, but sometimes acid escapes the stomach and travels back up. That can damage the cells lining ...

Health

Video: What is the microbiome?

Valhalla Fellow Lindsey Backman explains what the microbiome is and the roles that different members of our microbiomes play in health and disease.

Inflammatory disorders

FDA approves Tremfya for ulcerative colitis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's Tremfya (guselkumab) for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.

Immunology

Gut microbiome found to influence location of immune cells

Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of Max Delbrück Center and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin (ECRC) have found that different anatomical sections of the gastrointestinal tracts of mice carry ...

Gastroenterology

A GPS for the gastrointestinal system

Two Texas Tech Health El Paso gastroenterology researchers are receiving recognition for their clinical investigation of an electronic capsule that wirelessly relays important information about a patient's gut motor function ...

Sleep disorders

Waking up to the hidden struggles of inflammatory bowel diseases

Helping people with inflammatory bowel diseases to get a better night's sleep could help keep the condition at bay and improve their quality of life, say Flinders University and Flinders Medical Center researchers, as they ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Chlamydia can settle in the intestine, organoid experiments reveal

People who are infected with chlamydia can transmit these bacteria to other people during unprotected sex. The pathogens usually cause no symptoms, or only mild symptoms at first, such as itching in the vagina, penis or anus. ...

Gastroenterology

Gut molecule slows fat burning during fasting, study finds

In a struggle that probably sounds familiar to dieters everywhere, the less a Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worm eats, the more slowly it loses fat. Now, scientists at Scripps Research have discovered why: a small molecule ...