“Every place you step, there’s 10,000 bacteria, most of which we've never seen,” said Brady, an associate professor at Rockefeller University in New York. Many of these bacteria behave in ways that aren't yet understood and produce molecules that haven't been seen before. He and his colleagues repor

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

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...

One year old mixed beagle/hounds Buster, Indie and Romeo are performing their twice daily cancer detection training which is how they are fed. They have successfully trained dogs to identify urine containing e.coli, the bacteria that causes a certain type of urinary tract infection, and to distingu...

"Have you ever had a gut feeling or butterflies in your stomach? Has hunger ever changed your mood? Our bellies and brains are physically and biochemically connected in a number of ways. As a nutritionist, microbiologist and neuroscientist, Ruairi Robertson is passionate about the link between our b...

Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6