University of Queensland researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions ...

Efforts to combat hyperuricemia may find help from gut microbes, according to Dylan Dodd, MD, PhD, who spoke at the annual ...

The gut microbiome, an ecosystem of trillions of microorganisms in the human digestive tract, has been increasingly linked to ...

A study uncovered how Salmonella, a major cause of food poisoning, can invade the gut despite the presence of protective bacteria.

Scientists have developed a new technology to efficiently isolate a specific subset of gut bacteria from fecal samples that are recognized by IgA antibodies. These 'IgA-coated' bacteria are associated ...