Early-stage research has found 10 metabolites associated with bile duct cancer which might one day help create a urine test to identify the cancer.
Nov 16, 2021
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Researchers in Japan have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the metabolites that make up human saliva using samples given voluntarily from a group of 27-to-33-year-old individuals and a group of 72-to-80-year-old individuals. ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Scientists in Japan have identified metabolic compounds within the blood that are associated with dementia.
Sep 13, 2021
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) have discovered that acetate, a major metabolite produced by some intestinal bacteria, is involved in regulating other intestinal bacteria. Specifically, ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Plant-based meat substitutes taste and chew remarkably similar to real beef, and the 13 items listed on their nutrition labels—vitamins, fats and protein—make them seem essentially equivalent.
Jul 6, 2021
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The human gut consists of a complex community of microbes that consume and secrete hundreds of small molecules—a phenomenon called cross-feeding. However, it is challenging to study these processes experimentally. A new ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Blood sample analysis showed that, two to five years after they gave birth, mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had several significantly different metabolite levels compared to mothers of typically developing ...
Jan 13, 2021
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With fall and winter holidays coming up, many will be pondering the relationship between food and sleep. Researchers led by Professor Masashi Yanagisawa at the University of Tsukuba in Japan hope they can focus people on ...
Nov 27, 2020
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During pregnancy in mice, the billions of bacteria and other microbes that live in a mother's intestines regulate key metabolites, small molecules that are important for healthy fetal brain development, UCLA biologists report ...
Sep 23, 2020
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A new study in mice helps explain why gut microbiomes of breastfed infants can differ greatly from those of formula-fed infants.
Sep 1, 2020
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