Mercier-Bonin and her team used an adult human colon model—a bioreactor system that mimics the microbiota niches of the human colon—to study how repeated exposure to polyethylene microspheres affects ...

They found that deleting this gene in either mouse or human colon cells causes the cells to start functioning ... they tested whether deleting the gene could improve nutrient absorption in preclinical ...

Another mouse model, developed by co-author Eric Fearon ... for repairing and completely replacing the lining of the human ...