A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

The body's immune reaction to increased levels of a toxic molecule, part of a bacterial species in the human gut, may reveal ...

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These microplastics, as they’re known, have been found in many parts of the human body – including the lungs, placenta and ...

In a new study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the low FODMAP diet and the antibiotic rifaximin ...

Research shows that the time it takes for poop to leave your body can affect your overall health. Chronic constipation and ...

SYNGAP1 encephalopathy is a rare genetic disorder for which there is no treatment, causing epilepsy, intellectual disability, psychomotor delay and, frequently, autism.