Research by the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Research Center proposes that a common herpes virus may travel through the body ...

Professor Valerie Taylor says eating nutritious food could improve our mood. Her tips for caring for the gut microbiome ...

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific ...

Background Treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease (CD) suppress diverse inflammatory pathways but many patients remain ...

Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have identified the specific neurons in mice brains that tell them ...

By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

A new study from EMBL Heidelberg researchers shows that gut bacteria can bring about profound molecular changes in one of our most critical organs – the brain. The new study, published in the journal ...

Here, Prochera and colleagues used Plp1-CreERT2 driver mice to deplete the vast majority of enteric glia from the gut, and performed an elegant set of transcriptomic, microscopic and biochemical ...

This study presents important findings on the function of enteric glia expressing proteolipid protein 1 (PLP1+ glia). The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, although the inclusion ...

Pixar’s Inside Out may have won an Academy Award and spawned a record-breaking sequel, but storytellers have been assigning personalities to our emotions and internal organs for years. British ...

"Other neurons in the brain are usually restricted to sensing food put into our mouth, or how food fills the gut, or the nutrition obtained from food. The neurons we found are special in that they ...