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Vitamin D supplementation likely improves survival of cancers of the digestive tract, says researcher.
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Vitamin D supplementation likely improves survival of cancers of the digestive tract, says researcher.

by Boston University School of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For more than 100 years, it has been believed that sunlight and vitamin D deficiency were associated with the risk for many deadly cancers including colorectal, prostate and breast. But some scientists remained skeptical that this nutrient provides any benefit for reducing cancer risk and morbidity...

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Regeneration in the digestive tract

The human gut is teeming with billions of beneficial bacteria. Therapies that use antibiotics often destroy most of them. Whether and how the intestinal flora will subsequently recover has been investigated by a research team that included scientists from the MDC. The results have been published in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology. IMAGE: THIS IS A...