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Jan. 5, 2021 —Researchers report the use of Linked Color Imaging, an innovative modality that specifically combines selected wavelengths of light for illumination in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. This method, ...
Mar. 24, 2022 —Five grams of plastic particles on average enter the human gastrointestinal tract per person per week. This is roughly equivalent to the weight of a credit card. Whether ingested micro- and ...
Sep. 27, 2022 —Researchers have analyzed the manifestations of COVID-19 in the lungs and colon and pinpointed the differences at a molecular level. Their findings form the basis for the identification of novel ...
May 24, 2023 —Scientists have found evidence that microplastics in the digestive tract of seabirds altered the microbiome of the gut -- increasing the presence of pathogens and antibiotic-resistant microbes, while ...
June 24, 2021 —Many people don't realize that the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi residing within the gastrointestinal tract --collectively called the gut microbiome -- are connected to overall ...
Sep. 9, 2020 —Gut microbes affect human health, but there is still much to learn, in part because they're not easy to collect. But researchers now report that they have developed an ingestible capsule that in ...
June 2, 2022 —A new study shows that patients diagnosed with IBD were nine times as likely to develop depression than the general population. In addition, their siblings who did not suffer from IBD were almost two ...
May 26, 2021 —The immune system's attempt to eliminate Salmonella bacteria from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract instead facilitates colonization of the intestinal tract and fecal shedding, according to ...
Feb. 18, 2022 —New research of samples of intestine from people who have died of COVID-19 has shown the impact of the virus on the gut immune ...
Mar. 11, 2022 —When we eat food, our gut somehow senses its presence to begin shifting it along our digestive tract, but the question has always been -- how? Now, new research using both human gut samples and mice ...