Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem ...

Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate found in plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and ...

Wintertime changes in schedules and eating habits can cause constipation. We travel more, exercise less, eat fewer fruits and ...

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

A healthy digestive tract is the key to good health. The digestive process is complex and the digestive tract is designed to ...

Many biological processes exhibit daytime differences governed by rhythmic exposure to sunlight, termed circadian rhythms. Researchers at Penn State recently found, in mice, that a protein critical to ...

Under healthy conditions, the intestinal epithelium fully renews itself every three to five days. Aging and exposure to ...

A new study led by Hartmut Geiger at the University of Ulm, Germany, and Yi Zheng and Kodandaramireddy Nalapareddy, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), USA reveals that age-related ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

In a study published in Nature on January 28, a research team led by Eric H. Xu (Xu Huaqiang) from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Ma Xiong from ...