A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

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After eight weeks with a new set of gut microbes, mice can begin to show brain gene-activity patterns that resemble the ...

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A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...