Nearly 20 million people die every year from cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide. Genetic and ...

Gut bacteria has been linked to the world’s most common form of heart disease, researchers revealed Thursday.

Gut microbes likely play a role in coronary artery disease (CAD), a common heart disease, but the mechanisms remain largely unknown. Researchers in Seoul recently identified 15 bacterial species ...

In a recent review published in the journal Microbiome, researchers synthesized evidence on how maternal intestinal bacteria, human milk components, and the maternal environment influence infant ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death, and a person has an average lifetime risk of colon cancer of about one in 25. Diagnosing the ...

Our gut microbes and genes are in constant conversation, shaping each other in ways that affect everything from immunity and inflammation to disease risk, according to new review of scientific ...

Malaria is a global health problem that is caused by a parasite, which is spread by infected mosquitoes. According to the World Health Organization, there were about 263 million malaria cases and ...

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Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.