University of Houston: Inventing New Tools to Peer Into the Gastrointestinal Tract
August 20, 2020
August 20, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 20 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release:
A University of Houston researcher is developing a new set of metal sensors that will be able to function in the gastrointestinal tract, a low oxygen environment, to examine how gut bacteria respond when trace metal nutrients, like iron and zinc, are thrown out of balance either through diet or disease.
"We are developing new fluorescent metal sensors that do not rely on oxygen . . .
A University of Houston researcher is developing a new set of metal sensors that will be able to function in the gastrointestinal tract, a low oxygen environment, to examine how gut bacteria respond when trace metal nutrients, like iron and zinc, are thrown out of balance either through diet or disease.
"We are developing new fluorescent metal sensors that do not rely on oxygen . . .