Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology – in health and disease.

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology—in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg ...

The journey of digesting the food starts from the mouth itself and ends in the large intestine. In the digestive track, the ...

Learn about gut transit time and its impact on your health and well-being. Discover how the speed of food movement through your digestive tract affects you.

Research reveals that δ-receptor agonists like KNT-127 alleviate IBS symptoms by modulating gut-brain interactions and ...

Motility is the ability to move spontaneously from one location to another by consuming energy. In biology, the term usually refers to single-celled and simple multicellular organisms, and ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

High-resolution esophageal manometry plays an essential role in diagnosing the highly prevalent esophageal motility problems in rheumatoid diseases.

A transcutaneous electrical stimulation system (TESS) is effective in reducing both symptoms and esophageal acid exposure ...