{"id":163946,"date":"2023-05-15T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/capsule-captures-first-look-inside-digestion-in-healthy-people"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:25:31","slug":"capsule-captures-first-look-inside-digestion-in-healthy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/capsule-captures-first-look-inside-digestion-in-healthy-people","title":{"rendered":"Capsule captures first look inside digestion in healthy people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/capsule-captures-first-look-inside-digestion-in-healthy-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a specially designed capsule, researchers can now voyage through the digestive system, collecting new data about digestion and microorganisms. The work by a team including researchers at the University of California, Davis, Stanford University and Envivo Bio Inc., is published May 10 in papers in <i>Nature<\/i> and <i>Nature<\/i> Metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the process of digestion takes place in our small intestine, where enzymes break down food so it can be absorbed through the gut wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe small intestine has so far only been accessible in sedated people who have fasted, and that\u2019s not very helpful,\u201d said Professor Oliver Fiehn, director of the West Coast Metabolomics Center at UC Davis. Metabolomics is the study of the metabolome, the small molecules involved in metabolism in cells, tissues and organs. Fiehn is senior author on the <i><i>Nature<\/i> Metabolism<\/i> paper and co-corresponding author on the <i>Nature<\/i> paper. Jacob Folz, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis, is first author on the <i><i>Nature<\/i> Metabolism<\/i> paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a specially designed capsule, researchers can now voyage through the digestive system, collecting new data about digestion and microorganisms. The work by a team including researchers at the University of California, Davis, Stanford University and Envivo Bio Inc., is published May 10 in papers in Nature and Nature Metabolism. Most of the process of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}