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Researchers have created an <i>in vitro</i> human model of environmental enteric dysfunction in a microengineered Intestine Chip device, providing a window into the complex interplay between malnutrition and genetic factors driving the disease.
Millions of children in low- and middle-income nations suffer from environmental enteric dysfunction (EED), a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old.
Research has revealed that the constant pattern of stretching and relaxing caused by breathing generates immune responses against invading viruses.