A team led by researchers at Georgia State University has identified a novel group of neurons controlling the brain-heart-gut ...

Diabetes is a leading cause of global mortality and disability, and its economic burden is substantial. This Review focuses on type 2 diabetes, which makes up 90–95% of all diabetes cases. Type 2 ...

”The capsule means that we can collect information that may help explain individual differences in digestion, nutrient uptake and bowel movement patterns. This provides us with far greater knowledge ...

The enzyme nitrogenase ‘fixes’ nitrogen gas to form bioavailable ammonia, a vital process for life. Two studies solve a long-standing mystery: how a small protein saves nitrogenase from ...

By avoiding smoking, you drastically reduce your risk of many other types of cancer and other diseases. Colon cancer screening is beneficial at detecting precancerous changes in the large intestine ...

It is theorized that leaky gut in the horse can cause low-grade systemic inflammation, contributing to chronic inflammatory disorders like arthritis ...

Pashos et al. show that H3K36 methylation maintains intestinal epithelial fate commitment, whereas its suppression, which is also observed upon injury, induces a plastic state and expression of ...

Caroline Igo (she/her/hers) is a wellness editor and holds Sleep Science Coach and Stress Management certificates from the Spencer Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in creative writing ...

Using over-the-counter NSAIDs for the occasional headache or achy back won’t typically cause a peptic ulcer. Rather, peptic ulcer disease is something that can occur with longer-term use of NSAIDs, ...

The capsule traveled through the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, collecting data on pH ... and here differences in our gut environment could very well play an important role.” The ...

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New York is the backdrop for famous holiday films such as “Miracle on 34th Street,” “Home Alone 2” and “Elf.” This year came a less felicitous kind when a video appeared of a woman ...