Researchers in Germany and Austria have created an electronic skin that can extract information from its surroundings to manipulate physical and virtual objects without touching them.
Studies show that visceral pain and anxiety, two symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, can be transferred by transplanting faecal gut microbiota from patients to germ-free mice.
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