With more than 100 million neurons in the digestive tract, the gut is commonly known as the "second brain" in numerous cultures, including ancient Greece, Japan, China and India, linking digestion ...

Arash Grakoui, Ph.D., co-principal investigator of the study, and professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at Emory University. With more than 100 million neurons in the digestive tract, the ...

Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates famously stated that "all disease begins in the gut." Modern medicine is only beginning to catch up with this early prediction. One of the most significant medical ...

Silica nanoparticles may make oral insulin possible by safely enhancing drug absorption through the intestinal wall in obese mice.

Researchers discovered that gut bacteria could travel to the brain via the vagus nerve in mice, offering clues to the gut-brain axis’ involvement in some neurological disorders. Weiss, Grakoui, and ...

Dubious claims are out there of leaky gut causing diseases from depression to autoimmune disorders. Experts weighed in on why that may not be the case. A scanning electron microscopel view of ...

The gut–glucose connection arises from interactions between gut microbes, hormones, and nutrient digestion. The human gut hosts trillions of microbes whose collective genome vastly exceeds that of ...