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,” […]
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Colon: Full of Mozart
Today many different press reports say, one way or another: “A U.S. study found physicians who listen to Mozart while doing colonoscopies increase their detection rates of precancerous polyps, researchers say.” That particular quote is from UPI, whose story carries the headline “Mozart may improve doctors’ colon results“. That UPI story can, equally well, support the […]