Food, microbes, and medicine all clump together as they move through our gut. Sticky molecules secreted into our intestines bind
Category: Health
Three years into soda tax, sugary drink consumption down more than 50 percent in Berkeley
Consumption of sugary drinks in Berkeley’s diverse and low-income neighborhoods dropped precipitously in 2015, just months after the city levied
Signals on the scales: How the brain processes images
How are the images cast on the retina reassembled in the brain? Researchers in Munich and Tuebingen find that processing
New mechanisms regulating neural stem cells
The use of stem cells to repair organs is one of the foremost goals of modern regenerative medicine. Scientists at
A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand is
The next-generation bionic hand, developed by researchers from EPFL, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A.
New ‘interspecies communication’ strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered
Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also
Fruit fly wing research reshapes understanding of how organs form
How do fruit flies grow their wings? Rutgers scientists discovered a surprising answer that could one day help diagnose and
Chemical added to consumer products impairs response to antibiotic treatment
Grocery store aisles are stocked with products that promise to kill bacteria. People snap up those items to protect themselves
Electric car batteries inspire safer, cheaper way to make compounds used in medicines
Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has
Design principles for disease-sensing nanomaterials
Scientists have long sought to develop drug therapies that can more precisely diagnose, target and effectively treat life-threatening illness such
