Prof. Simon Carding, Leader of the Gut Health and Food Safety Research Programme, Institute of Food Research and Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, describes our current understanding of the human gut and its relationship with its human host and introduce the provocative propos...

The trillions of bacteria in your gut have more of a relationship with your brain than you may realize. Technically known as the enteric nervous system, the second brain consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of the long tube of our gut, or alimentary canal, which measures about nine m...

The notion that the state of our gut governs our state of mind dates back more than 100 years. The emerging concept of the gut microbiome as a key regulator of brain and behavior opens up a new horizon in neuroscience. Precise targeting of the microbiome-gut-brain axis with psychobiotics is a novel

President Obama delivers remarks at COP21 in Paris on the global community's need to address the threat of climate change. November 30, 2015.

One of the most passionate speeches of the opening day of the U.N. climate change conference in Paris was delivered by Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak. Thousands of residents from the Marshall Islands have already fled the Pacific island state, becoming climate change refugees because o

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published a report on climate change and the impact it has on remote low lying Pacific Island communities. The Marshall Islands is made up of 29 low lying coral atolls and they are disappearing.

PrEP, the FDA-approved HIV prevention medication, has become an increasingly popular safeguard among gay and bisexual men; however the pill is not without controversy. CNN's Sanjay Gupta reports.

“If we want to leave our children, grandchildren and future generations a healthy planet, we’ve got to respond now to the challenge of climate change. “ – Robert Redford. From every part of our world, in our own way, we can do something to act on climate. But we need our world leaders to do the s

There is overwhelming evidence that humans are experiencing the effects of climate change, says a new report. Unless serious action is taken, this is likely to get worse, with growing risks of floods, food shortages, and threats to human health, warns the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on C...

On September 15-16, 2012, a team of researchers, physicians and specialists from the University of Gothenburg performed the world's first mother-to daughter uterus transplantation, when two Swedish women received new wombs donated by their mothers. This video gives the background, aims and goals of ...