July 21, 2025
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Consumption of soft drinks, supplemented with white sugar, alters the DNA of gut bacteria and affects the host immune system. The good news? These effects are reversible.
The findings by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Prof. Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Ph.D. student Noa Gal-Mandelbaum, and other members of the Geva-Zatorsky team were recently published in Nature Communications. Dr. Tamar Ziv and the Smoler Proteomics Center at the Technion assisted with the research.