There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. Interestingly, your gut contains around 168 million neurons, which are connected to your brain through your nervous system.

Mycelial hyphae form carpets that stretch up to thousands of acres in ... Researchers have found endogenous psychedelic production in the human brain and gut, the latter of which occurs with the help ...

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form and is often associated with excess ... metabolize it to produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). Gut microbes generate many substances essential for human ...

These bacteria form communities that help digest food ... sequences as quickly as once a day, bacteria living in human gut add new sequences at a much slower rate—on average, one every three ...

A new review article published in The Lancet Planetary Health outlines how the compounding effects of climate change could weaken human gut microbiomes, with the most severe impacts expected ...

"This is the first time that a type I immune-responsive cell type has been identified in the human gut and the significant growth of BEST4/CA7 + cells underscore their roles in immunity.

In a healthy gut lining, as in most tissues ... A protein called Ance—the fruit fly form of the human angiotensin-converting enzyme, which is involved in the regulation of blood pressure and ...

“The gut microbiome is like a wild-card organ in the human body,” says Gary Schroth, Distinguished Scientist and VP at sequencing technology developer, Illumina, based in San Diego.