Researchers show how mice fed a Western-style diet are not able to rebuild a 'healthy,' diverse gut microbiome following antibiotic treatment. These mice were also more susceptible to infection by ...

Foods that help digestion, like fruits, dark green vegetables, and whole grains, may aid your digestive health and relieve ...

Kefir and yogurt are both fermented foods that contain beneficial bacteria called probiotics. Kefir has a higher probiotic ...

The human body undergoes numerous changes throughout life, with many significant transitions occurring during the decade of ...

A new approach to drug design can deliver medicine directly to the gut in mice at significantly lower doses than current inflammatory bowel disease treatments. The proof-of-concept study introduced a ...

A team of health researchers at the National Institute of Gastroenterology, in Italy, has found an association between ...

Sloths possess the slowest digestive system of any mammal on Earth. While humans process food in about 24-72 hours, sloths take an astonishing 30 days or more to completely digest a single meal. This ...

Sloths possess the slowest digestive system of any mammal on Earth. While humans process food in about 24-72 hours, sloths take an astonishing 30 days or more to completely digest a single meal. This ...

For an animal that has such an obvious impact on the landscape it resides in, Eurasian Beaver is never especially easy to see. On an unusually warm – but very welcome – early April evening at the ...

Across the vast plains of southern South America, a chubby rodent reigns underground in a vibrant, hierarchical world. The plains viscacha, a stout cousin of the chinchilla, builds subterranean ...

The findings suggest that lipid metabolism may play a central role in maintaining a healthy immune system as we age ... route to avoid degradation by the digestive tract, Crews cautioned.

The possibility of satellite-based toll collection system implementation in India has been making headlines for quite some time. Now it seems the system will be implemented soon. Earlier this week, ...