Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

Scientists have been learning more about the specific microbes that compose the human gut microbiome, which is a vast community of microorganisms that calls the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract home.

Following the first stay-at-home orders issued in the U.S. to curb the spread of COVID-19, gastrointestinal viruses such as norovirus, rotavirus and adenovirus all but disappeared from California ...

Brain fog is the result of “bad connections” between the gut and the brain, said Gerard Clarke, a professor of ...

Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is an uncommon form of tuberculosis infection that usually occurs when Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects your gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Tuberculosis is a bacterial ...