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Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, clarifies the complex interaction between gut bacteria and irritable ...

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A novel treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is on the horizon, with the discovery that two specific gut microbes ...

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of ...

A young boy in Nebraska may well have been saved thanks to a particular piece of rotten eggplant collected in South Africa.