News tagged with gastro intestinal tract
The tiny difference in the genes of bacteria
Every year, diarrhea causes around five million fatalities worldwide. Most people die due to pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, which were ingested into the gastro-intestinal tract through contaminated ...
Jun 30, 2009 |
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New polymer research could boost probiotics industry
A protective delivery vehicle that shuttles friendly bacteria safely through the stomach to the intestines could provide a major boost for the probiotics industry. The new technology could also be used for the delivery of ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Antibiotics disrupt gut ecology, metabolism
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans carry several pounds of microbes in our gastro-intestinal tracts. Recent research suggests that this microbial ecosystem plays a variety of critical roles in our health. Now, working in a mouse model, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Benefits of bariatric surgery may outweigh risks for severely obese
Bariatric surgery can result in long-term weight loss and significant reductions in cardiac and other risk factors for some severely obese adults, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Is there a cure for AIDS? Forum lifts a taboo
Scientists at the world AIDS conference have discussed an idea that had become almost taboo. Can AIDS be cured?
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 21, 2010 |
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New odour-'reading' device sniffs out superbug
(PhysOrg.com) -- Testing has begun on a device that can sniff out the presence of Clostridium difficile disease by smell, thanks to an award from the Wellcome Trust.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Promising probiotic treatment for inflammatory bowel disease
Bacteria that produce compounds to reduce inflammation and strengthen host defences could be used to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Such probiotic microbes could be the most successful treatment for IBD to date, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 20, 2010 |
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A role for calcium in taste perception
Calcium may not come to mind when you think of tasty foods, but in a study appearing in the January 8 issue of JBC, Japanese researchers have provided the first demonstration that calcium channels on the tongue ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Aspirin protection for Lynch syndrome
(PhysOrg.com) -- A daily dose of aspirin can prevent the occurrence of cancer in people with a genetic predisposition towards Lynch syndrome, a Newcastle University scientist has told Europe’s largest cancer congress. Lynch ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Clinical study rejects cancer safety fears of most common heartburn treatment
Fears about the cancer causing effects of the second most prescribed group of drugs in the Western world have been put to rest, following the largest ever study into their use.
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Study on salmonella self-destruction
ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (CN), have been able to describe how random molecular ...
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Aug 21, 2008 |
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