Cohabitating people share about a quarter of their gut and oral microbiota
People who live together share more oral and gut microbes with each other than with other people in their communities, according to a study publishing June 15 in the Cell…
MIT researchers develop tiny ingestible sensor that can measure temperature from inside the body
In a hospital or at home, temperatures are usually taken using an oral or forehead thermometer, but these do not always accurately reflect the core body temperature. Measuring core temperature…
How inflammatory bowel disease promotes colorectal cancer
A chain of immune reactions in the gut—driven by a key signaling protein and a surge of white blood cells from the bone marrow—may help explain why people with inflammatory…
Probiotici di nuova generazione per la prevenzione e la gestione di malattie metaboliche
L’Istituto per il sistema produzione animale in ambiente Mediterraneo del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche di Portici (Cnr-Ispaam), assieme all’Università Tor Vergata di Roma e all’IRCCS Neuromed di Pozzilli (Isernia), è…
A diabetes, heart failure and kidney disease medication (sotagliflozin) is the first of its kind to significantly reduce both heart attacks and strokes
Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart attack and…
On World Parkinson’s Day, a new theory emerges on the disease’s origins and spread
Credit Aarhus University Hospital/University of Rochester Medical Center The nose or the gut? For the past two decades, the scientific community has debated the wellspring of the toxic proteins at…