For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, mainly targets the liver to suppress glucose production. But a new ...

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, ...

Ayijiang Yisimayi is in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA, and the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, ...

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional ...

A stem cell-derived intestine model reveals glycyrrhizin as a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that the protein caspase-5 (CASP5), long thought to be a foot soldier in the body’s defense against bacterial infection, does not actually ...

Researchers are testing new therapies to treat celiac disease beyond a gluten-free diet, including immune tolerance drugs and ...

Chronic immune diseases are shaped by multiple inflammatory processes happening at the same time, each in different parts of ...

While there’s no eating plan that can cure IBD, there are some plans that can play a major role in quelling inflammation and ...