Your digestive system starts its job even before you eat your first bite. The digestive system consists of the parts of the body that work together to turn food and liquids into the building blocks ...

In the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, a group of scientists ventures inside the body of an injured colleague to save him from a life-threatening blood clot. They get a front-row seat to the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

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Flutters, knots and other stomach sensations tied to nervousness are all examples of the gut-brain axis in action.

VANCOUVER — Some trilobites scurrying across the seafloor around 500 million years ago probably sported two-lane digestive tracks, new research shows. Michael Rutana of Ohio State University ...

Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects. "It's insane," says University of North Carolina ...

A PhD research project at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has provided essential knowledge about the mechanisms leading to feed-induced enteritis in salmon and also insight into the ...

In a comprehensive study, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg have provided reliable evidence for a link between chronic ...

Nutritional consultant Brenda Watson bases her new book on what she calls “your inner weight-loss secret”: When the bacteria in your digestive tract are out of balance, you gain weight; when they are ...