About the expert Linda Yancey, MD, is a board-certified physician in infectious disease and internal medicine with over two ...

But they also interact with the human nervous system. Microbes can produce compounds that affect the way neurons work. They ...

Microplastic pollution is a severe ecological and environmental issue and is also one of the important risk factors affecting ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in ...

It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common... Damage from gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults It's unclear why colon cancer cases have doubled in ...

Kenny Schroeder, a firefighter hired by the CDC to help recruit participants for the cancer database, said the cuts are “really a gut punch.” “It was the Trump administration that put the ...

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.