How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Recent studies suggest that animals and people alike have close and complex relationships with the bacteria around and within ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

A doctor went fishing for answers in a woman's brain and ended up with a first-of-its-kind catch: A squirming, live worm. A frontal lobe abnormality shown in the 64-year-old woman's MRI scan prompted ...

A tropical parasite might be making its way into more temperate climates: Rats and snails in five Florida counties have tested positive for rat lungworm, a parasitic worm that can cause a rare type of ...