Doctors have been listening to gut noises for millennia. Hippocrates coined the term “borborygmi” to describe its gurgling. Now, researchers at the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia, in Perth, have used modern technology and big data to decode the rumblings of the gut and predict the likelihood of irritable bowel syndrome.
Nobel laureate Barry J. Marshall, MD, and his colleagues submitted results for their proprietary belt with noise sensors and software to the