Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...
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Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...
The history of microbiota research has been driven by a series of technical innovations. In 1683, Leeuwenhoek first glimpsed the previously unseen world of microorganisms, including bacteria, hidden ...
The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...
Intestinal motility, defined as the motor patterns of the digestive tract involving coordinated contractions and relaxations of the smooth muscle layers, has been directly linked to constipation 16.
In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, researchers investigate the impact of dietary antigens in regulating small intestinal tumors. Despite being the most common type of ...
The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...