With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

Five per cent of people suffers from sort of intestinal disorders daily in Bangladesh due to unsafe food consumption, said ...

In a study being published today in Cell, the scientists present a method that can simultaneously identify, through testing a stool sample, all the proteins in the intestine – including those from ...

Weighing in at nearly 2 kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria ...

Food allergy, or the aggressive immune system reaction following the consumption of a certain food or food ingredient, ...

Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) marked in red With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with ...

The digestive system comprises several organs, all working in concert to turn the food you eat into energy. But sometimes, illness or injury can lead to a digestive disease that threatens your ...

Public health expert Emily Abel discusses with STAT the challenges to finding truly gluten-free foods, the topic of her new ...

Food allergies can be life-threatening due to the rapid and exaggerated immune response. While mucosal mast cells (MMCs) are ...

For years, obesity was often seen as a result of poor lifestyle choices. However, experts now suggest that biological factors ...