Though tiny plastic fragments have been known to accumulate in the brain, liver and placenta, they are especially disruptive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Switzerland plan to establish a vault for gut bacteria from around the world. A frozen stool sample in a small jar ...

(Pascal/Flickr/public domain/CC0 1.0) A specific microbe found in the human gut appears to be able to boost muscle strength, ...

Kimchi is often eaten as is or in other foods or soups. Image credits: rawkkim. You probably ate 100,000 plastic pieces over ...

In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

Researchers found that very small numbers of gut bacteria can translocate to the brain in mice, particularly when gut barrier ...

Researchers at Emory University have found that live gut bacteria can travel to the brain in mice fed a high-fat diet, a ...

A lightbulb moment hit as Lawrence David was chatting one day with an ecologist who studies the microbiomes and diets of large herbivores in the African savanna. David was envious. He'd been studying ...

A new study shows that a high fat diet may weaken the gut barrier and allow bacteria to travel toward the brain through the ...