There is a country where people routinely eat butter, full-fat cheese, rich cream sauces, and freshly baked baguettes - and still maintain some of the slimmest waistlines in the developed world.

When the digestive system fails to absorb fructose, the lingering sugar disrupts the gut microbiome. A recent study reveals this bacterial shift sparks low-grade, body-wide inflammation that can alter ...

To most people, calories are the North Star of nutrition: a rigid quantity assigned to each and every food that never wavers or changes. Two individuals who eat the exact same thing in the exact same ...

Miniature organs grown in the lab can organize themselves into complex shapes. But they never do it the same way twice, which makes it hard to use these so-called "organoids" to study disease. Now, ...

A study of about 15,000 adults finds a lasting association between the use of certain antibiotics and the balance of the intestinal microbiota. The intestinal microbiota, that community of bacteria ...

Amarasate, a bitter hop extract from Humulus lupulus, has been investigated for its ability to activate gastrointestinal bitter taste receptors and influence appetite-related hormone signaling.

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal's maiden six-wicket for India as the hosts beat England by 75 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

In “The Descent of Man,” he described the appendix as a vestige: a leftover from plant-eating ancestors with larger digestive organs. For more than a century, that interpretation shaped both textbook ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, often called IBD, is a long-term condition that causes ongoing inflammation in the digestive system. The two main types are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. People ...

High blood pressure is one of the most common health problems in the world today. Doctors also call it hypertension. It affects hundreds of millions of people, and about one in ten adults lives with ...

Cancer immunotherapy has transformed oncology, yet many patients fail to respond or eventually develop resistance.

Ingestible smart capsules deliver medication directly to specific gut locations using microscopic needles and targeted drug release systems.