News.com.au reports: Nobel winner’s device listens to your gut A non-invasive way for detecting gut disorders could replace the dreaded colonoscopy, West Australian researchers say Gut disorders could be detected without the need for dreaded, invasive colonoscopies thanks to an invention by West Australian researchers, led by a Nobel Prize laureate. A University of WA […]
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Enders’s “Darm mit Charme”: What’s what about the gut
Giulia Enders gave seven-minute talk (at Science Slam Berlin) about being a medical student studying the gut. The talk got people talking, and got a a book publisher offering a book contract, and got Enders writing a book, and got lots of people reading that book after it was written. Here’s video of the talk, in German, […]
A little gut, on a little chip
In the old days, people made functioning model airplanes or model rockets (one of which is pictured here, for mental contrast with the idea of a model intestine). Many people still do that. Others have turned inward for nifty things to model: “Human gut-on-a-chip inhabited by microbial flora that experiences intestinal peristalsis-like motions and flow,” […]
The German beer belly is misunderstood [study]
A team of scientists has attacked the idea that beer is the main cause of beer bellies in Germans. As with many biomedical questions, an absolute, indisputable answer may be impossible. To obtain it would require continuously monitoring and measuring, over a span of years, every sip and morsel drunk and eaten by a vast number of […]