The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

The Fix: Getting rid of reflux may be as simple as cutting out or reducing trigger foods. Your doctor may also prescribe acid ...

SLE, or lupus, is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues, leading to ...

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder that can affect individuals of any age However widespread misinformation about the ...

In the Florida Keys, an effort to use genetic engineering to suppress an invasive, disease-carrying mosquito species spent a decade mired in regulatory hurdles and local opposition. (All for a ...

Pythons may hold the answer to another way to regrow our guts, a group of researchers led by the University of Texas at ...

What Is Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory bowel disease ... Evidence to suggest a genetic role for IBD is strong, including: Family history. As many as 20% of people with IBD have a ...

The study could unlock new ways of healing and repairing gastrointestinal illnesses, like Crohn’s or celiac disease ... The flurry of such genetic and cellular activity resembles what happens ...

Seven new genetic discoveries could "revolutionise" our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease. The research focused specifically on the X-chromosome, which is present in nearly all humans except ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded 406 cases of an undiagnosed disease between October 24 and December 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Congo's Ministry ...