Researchers have developed a quick and simple method for measuring bile acids in biological fluids that can be used to rapidly diagnosis a severe fat storage disorder that can lead to liver disease in ...

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College London Clinical researchers at Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London have found a better way to measure the risk of ...

A new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that human noroviruses, the leading viral cause of foodborne ...

Bile acid diarrhoea (BAD) is a prevalent but poorly understood cause of chronic diarrhoea; bile acid malabsorption occurs in ileal disease, but the primary disorder without malabsorption is more ...

Bile acids are essential to digestion, by acting like a kind of detergent that breaks up fat molecules. Fat doesn't dissolve in water, but our digestive system is full of water, so the fat we consume ...

There are trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, and we are starting to learn more about the exact mechanisms that link those microbes and the substances they generate to changes in ...

Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can be used to repair damaged human livers. This is the first time ...

The prevalence of colorectal cancer in people under the age of 50 has risen in recent decades. One suspected reason: the increasing rate of obesity and high-fat diets. Now, researchers at the Salk ...

Andrea Merchak receives funding from National Institutes of Health grant R33 MH108156, National Institutes of Health grant T32 NS115657, The Owens Family Foundation, UVA Trans University Microbiome ...

Clinical researchers at King's College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ have found a better way to measure the risk of stillbirth for women with a common liver disorder through a simple blood test. The ...