Using a novel technique developed by Mitchell Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to identify different types of bacteria, scientists have completed the most precise survey to date of how microbial communities in the human gut respond to ...
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A common stomach bacteria may protect against a certain form of esophageal cancer, a new review suggests. People with H. pylori strains that also had the CagA gene were almost half as likely to get ...
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WASHINGTON: Some bacteria like Helicobacter pylori that inhabit the human gut, may help protect against the development of a type of stomach cancer. A review found that people who had H. pylori strains carrying a gene called CagA were almost half as ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have managed to produce and grow, without altering their function, smell receptors in the laboratory. Olfactory or smell receptors are essentially membrane proteins present on cell surfaces and ...
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A bout of acidity could mean more than just a heavy meal playing up. Aspirin, spicy food and chewing tobacco — widely used by Indians — are triggers of gastritis. A look at why we are more vulnerable to the stomach infection. Ninety per cent of ...
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There is a cancer in the United States that isn't sneaking up on us; it's already here. Cancer of the esophagus is one of just two cancers that are increasing in this country (skin cancer is the second) and the western world. In fact, figures from ...
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THURSDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Three leading medical associations have created guidelines to help heart disease patients cut their risk of ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding from the condition's most common treatments -- antiplatelets and ...
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