The study discovered that the small intestine is a major contributor to systemic glucose imbalances when sugar levels go low or high. Researchers made a serendipitous discovery: that three months ...

One particular critter, Helicobacter pylori, infects the stomach and can live there for decades, undetected, but it can cause all manner of problems—and even cancer. Although H. pylori infects ...

For a long time, scientists have been investigating vaccines against pathogenic microbes in the intestine—particularly those that antibiotics have become ineffective against due to resistance.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States Department of Biochemistry, Carver College of ...