Your digestive tract is home to trillions of bacteria that dictate your immunity and mental health; unfortunately, these ...

Whether in the gut, mouth, or on the skin, the human body is colonized by bacteria. Most of them are beneficial and we find ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Probiotics are live microorganisms (small life forms), such as bacteria and yeast.

Advanced, chronic liver disease is thought to kill over two million people around the world every year. The community of ...

Microbiome is as unique as a fingerprint. These bacteria perform important jobs, including maintaining the intestinal barrier ...

Altered intestinal barrier function is postulated to be a central predisposing factor to intestinal diseases, including inflammatory bowel diseases and food allergies. However, the mechanisms involved ...

That bottle of antibiotics in your medicine cabinet might be doing more harm than previously thought. Groundbreaking research from Bar-Ilan University has uncovered a troubling connection between ...

If alcohol impacts one of these organs, it is likely to impact the other. In recent experiments, Szabo's team gave mice daily ...

While in vivo animal models are commonly employed for pharmacokinetic studies, they are often expensive, low in throughpu,t and typically fail to accurately replicate key characteristics of the human ...