A single dietary ingredient, soy, can orchestrate a sophisticated immune defense in the gut by reshaping which bacteria thrive there. A new study in Immunity traces the exact molecular chain linking food to microbes to immunity.
Researchers at RUDN University have mapped absolute gut microbial shifts in chronic heart failure patients using a technique most previous studies skipped, and the picture is striking: beneficial bacteria that make short-chain fatty acids are down, while inflammatory pathogens are up.
An AI model trained on liver imaging from routine CT scans can predict colorectal neoplasia with surprising accuracy, raising the prospect of catching cancer risk during scans already ordered for something else entirely.
Millions of people living with liver cirrhosis carry a hidden neurological burden they cannot name or feel clearly. A sweeping new review reframes covert hepatic encephalopathy not as a brain problem but as a whole-body crisis spanning the gut, liver, muscle, and brain.
A stomach bacterium infecting nearly half the world's population may be quietly stoking inflammation in heart attack patients, but a large Swedish clinical trial suggests routine screening won't solve the problem.
A new systematic review pooling data from 13,516 patients paints the clearest picture yet of how vaping-associated lung injury unfolds, and the numbers are more alarming than the low mortality rate suggests.