POSTS TAGGED AS stomach

Ingestible Capsule for mRNA Delivery

Pill that releases mRNA in the stomach to administer vaccines or treat GI disease
“Here, we [engineers at MIT] describe orally [MORE]

Growing Functional Stomach Tissue in the Lab

Tissue-Engineered Human Stomach Tissues
Quoting directly: “Scientists [at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital] have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues [MORE]

First Medical Device for Obesity Using Brain to Stomach Signal Blocking

VBLOC Therapy for Obesity
EnteroMedics (St. Paul, MN) has received FDA approval for an implanted pacemaker-like device that stimulates the vagus [MORE]

Human Stomach Tissue Regenerated from Stem Cells

3D Human Gastric Organoids
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have grown tiny gastric organoids (one tenth of an inch in diameter) [MORE]

A Wearable “EKG for the Gut”

GI System Diagnosis
Consider this: ‘There is one brain that sits at the top of the spinal cord, but there is [MORE]