The new study, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell and led by Andrea Durand, professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering, assessed 39 gene expression networks in mice.
These computations and behaviors are crucial for organs such as the gut that are essential for determining food intake.
Durstand’s team at Cornell’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Microbiology, Microendocrine Research, and the National Institute of Agricultural Health and Agricultural Chemistry collaborated with colleagues from France and Germany to develop this important research channel of the gut.
“Microendody uses a fetus’ stomach to seed it with proteins to grow in the developing stomach,” said lead author Susan Williams, a graduate student in Cornell’s BIO5 program.
