Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The Kobe ...

But the cost of the biomass used to produce glucose has created a bottleneck in the supply chain, explains Professor Jun-ichiro Hayashi of Kyushu University, who leads a Japanese consortium ...

“The production of short-chain fatty acids from the excreted glucose is a huge discovery,” said Kobe University endocrinologist Wataru Ogawa, MD, PhD. “While these compounds are ...

The common diabetes drug metformin works partly by excreting sugar from the bloodstream into the intestines, where gut ...

(a) SNOM-TERS platform based on fiber vector light field; Background-free tip nanofocusing light source (b) and its electric field intensity enhancement (c); (d) TERS of chain glucose molecules ...

A Kobe University team found that glucose is excreted into the small intestine, where bacteria transform it into short-chain fatty acids. The endocrinologist OGAWA Wataru explains: “The ...

And second, on the way down, the glucose gets transformed into short-chain fatty acids. Ogawa says: "The production of short-chain fatty acids from the excreted glucose is a huge discovery.

a project that has been going on since 2016 but stalled in part thanks to supply chain difficulties on the chemistry side, mainly in procuring glucose oxidase, an enzyme that oxidizes glucose.