Recent research indicates a link between an animal’s gut bacteria and brain function. This may be true in humans, too.

Caste survives by regulating organic movement; it thrives by dramatising the ordinary; and it spreads by normalising the scripted norms ...

Givaudan’s Alexandre Bastos shares how engineering, empathy and AI shape the future of food innovation, from functional ...

The team showed that kidney impairment increased nitrate levels in the colon. The nitrates turbocharged Escherichia coli’s (E. coli) production of indole, an organic compound that turns into a harmful ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

This week, Southern England was rocked by what health officials called an “explosive” wave of meningococcal meningitis infections that resulted in 11 “probable” and 20 confirmed cases, including two ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...