Digestive System

Imaging of human small intestine tissue using a fluorescence staining method that allows marking a large number of proteins at the same time and thus mapping which proteins are produced in the entire basal area of ​​the intestine

navigate the digestive tract

Scientific image: Right: Creation of amyloids from eggs and whey protein. Left: their consumption in food and their journey in the digestive system.

Processed food - nothing to panic

Researchers at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering have discovered that incorporating amyloids into processed food has significant nutritional and health benefits
Joseph interprets to Pharaoh the dream he had in which there were seven cows and seven fat cows. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: why are cows fat?

An angry question is sent by a reader frustrated by counting calories and chewing celery: How is it that cows that eat straw, grass and other leaves and foliage that are so recommended for diets are so fat?
This is not a new version of the national flag of The Gambia, but a lining of the intestine as seen under a microscope. Messenger RNA molecules of two different genes (red and green) are located on both sides of the cell nucleus (blue). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Intestinal economy

How heartburn medications affect the gut

Intestinal bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Bacteria, people, and the numbers in between

Bacterial infection in the intestines. Illustration: shutterstock

A journey to the sub-science - the food Merza Merza /Roey Tsezana

Food rich in carbohydrates. From Wikipedia

Celiac disease: the causes of the disease and avoiding gluten

eat well Women in the village of Hondo Tchiri in Burkina Faso prepare kilo millet, a high-fiber grain that is an ingredient in many dishes. Credit: Marco Schmidt

Western diet, intestinal diseases, allergies and other ailments