{"id":182644,"date":"2024-02-13T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mucus-contains-vital-data-to-help-address-diseases-such-as-inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-colon-cancer"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T05:24:15","slug":"mucus-contains-vital-data-to-help-address-diseases-such-as-inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mucus-contains-vital-data-to-help-address-diseases-such-as-inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-colon-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Mucus contains vital data to help address diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mucus-contains-vital-data-to-help-address-diseases-such-as-inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-colon-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from UBC Okanagan could make monitoring gut health easier and less painful by tapping into a common\u2014yet often overlooked\u2014source of information: the mucus in our digestive system that eventually becomes part of fecal matter.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Dr. Kirk Bergstrom and post-graduate student Noah Fancy of UBCO\u2019s Biology department have discovered a non-invasive technique to study MUC2, a critical gut protein, from what we leave behind in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Theie findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0021925824000516\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from UBC Okanagan could make monitoring gut health easier and less painful by tapping into a common\u2014yet often overlooked\u2014source of information: the mucus in our digestive system that eventually becomes part of fecal matter. Researcher Dr. Kirk Bergstrom and post-graduate student Noah Fancy of UBCO\u2019s Biology department have discovered a non-invasive technique to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182644","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=182644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}