PromethION in action, in labs around the world

When healthy people eat a low-gluten and fibre-rich diet compared with a high-gluten diet they experience less intestinal discomfort including less bloating, a new study shows. The researchers attribute the impact of diet on healthy adults more to change in composition of dietary fibres than gluten itself.

To reproduce, bacteriophage infect bacterial cells and hijack their cellular machinery before killing their host as shown in this animation.

Learn how Andrew Dauber, chief of endocrinology at Children’s National Health System, is working to understand the intricacies of genes that control growth.