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  2. Dec 18, 2025
Gut–Brain Axis on Chip Reveals How Nutrition Influences Brain Health

Study in a Sentence: Scientists at the Dutch food research organization NIZO and the University of Twente have developed a human-relevant, microfluidic “Gut-Brain Axis on Chip” that models how dietary components travel from the digestive system to the brain and affect cognitive processes, offering a powerful new tool for studying nutrition’s impact on cognition and learning without animal or human testing. 

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