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Study Shows How Excess Dietary Sugar Worsens IBD Symptoms

Excess sugar hampers cells that renew the colon's lining in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh scientists.

23 May 2023

Gut Microbiota Interspecies Interactions may Impact the Efficacy of Antibiotics Against C. Difficile

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that can infect the large intestine, with symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening colon damage.

12 May 2023

Researchers Advance the Breeding of High-Resistant Starch Rice

Researchers have demonstrated that the loss of function of two paralogous starch biosynthesis genes increases the amount of resistant starch (RS) in cooked rice.

8 May 2023

Combination of two types of immune cells helps predict response to cancer immunotherapy

Thanks to a new prognostic method for detecting cancers including cancer of the large intestine, doctors could provide clearer disease prognoses and predict which patients will respond best to immunotherapy.

10 Feb 2023

Scientists discover how a high fat diet expels gut parasitic worm

Scientists have discovered that a high-fat diet allows the immune system to eliminate a parasitic worm which is a major cause of death and illness in the developing world.

7 Feb 2023

Empire apples improve the intestinal health of production broilers

An apple a day may keep the livestock veterinarian away. Juice, pulp and other waste from Empire apples, when injected into chicken eggs before hatching, show signs of boosting the animal's intestinal health, according to Cornell research.

14 Dec 2022

Antibiotics can affect gut microbiomes distinctly, a new study reveals

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai discovered that antibiotics have sex-specific effects on the gut microbiome makeup of male and female laboratory rats in a new study.

22 Jul 2022

New research shows how stem cells act in the intestine

The use of stem cells in medical therapy is a hot issue. Scientists are still unsure of how cells decide to divide or differentiate in order to regenerate organs. Recently, scientists discovered a new biophysical mechanism that controls stem cells in mice’s intestines.

14 Jul 2022

"Jelly Nata Probiotics" add value to pineapple while also solving the oversupply problem

A team of researchers from Chula Faculty of Science in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University has developed the "Jelly Nata Probiotics" jelly drink made from pineapple to benefit the mental wellbeing of the elderly, add value to pineapple while also solving the oversupply of pineapples.

7 Jul 2022

Enzymes found in capybara gut can promote the application of agroindustrial waste

One option to reduce dependence on oil and other fossil fuels is to transform agroindustrial waste into molecules of interest to society, like biofuels and biochemicals.

10 May 2022

Metabolite produced by gut microbes found to be involved in regulating commensal bacteria

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.

20 Jul 2021

New technology improves efficacy of inflammatory bowel disease drugs

More Canadians suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than anywhere else in the world, yet current treatments often have debilitating side effects and are not always effective.

20 May 2021

Machine learning algorithm helps differentiate benign and premalignant colorectal polyps

A machine learning algorithm helps accurately differentiate benign and premalignant colorectal polyps on CT colonography scans, according to a study published in the journal Radiology.

24 Feb 2021

Researchers use different colors of light to control gut bacteria genes

Baylor College of Medicine researcher Meng Wang had already shown that bacteria that make a metabolite called colanic acid (CA) could extend the lifespan of worms in her lab by as much as 50%, but her collaboration with Rice University synthetic biologist Jeffrey Tabor is providing tools to answer the bigger question of how the metabolite imparts longer life.

23 Dec 2020

Large Intestine News and Research

Study Shows How Excess Dietary Sugar Worsens IBD Symptoms

Gut Microbiota Interspecies Interactions may Impact the Efficacy of Antibiotics Against C. Difficile

Researchers Advance the Breeding of High-Resistant Starch Rice

Combination of two types of immune cells helps predict response to cancer immunotherapy

Scientists discover how a high fat diet expels gut parasitic worm

Empire apples improve the intestinal health of production broilers

Antibiotics can affect gut microbiomes distinctly, a new study reveals

New research shows how stem cells act in the intestine

"Jelly Nata Probiotics" add value to pineapple while also solving the oversupply problem

Enzymes found in capybara gut can promote the application of agroindustrial waste

Metabolite produced by gut microbes found to be involved in regulating commensal bacteria

New technology improves efficacy of inflammatory bowel disease drugs

Machine learning algorithm helps differentiate benign and premalignant colorectal polyps

Researchers use different colors of light to control gut bacteria genes

Hydrogen peroxide protects the intestinal lining from gut microbes

Severe ulcerative colitis linked to newly-discovered strain of oral bacteria

Combination of western-style high-fat diet with antibiotic can increase the risk of pre-IBD

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