Although the gut renews itself constantly, its stem cells accumulate age-related molecular changes that quietly alter how ...

Bowel cancer risk is influenced by several overlapping factors including age, weight and inflammation. This study is early stage biology, but it strengthens the idea that long term gut health is ...

Scientists have uncovered a gut-specific epigenetic aging mechanism that links inflammation and iron imbalance to cancer risk and may be reversible.

Abdominal fat is not a uniform tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and ...

For the first time, a team of experts from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), RWTH Aachen University, and the German ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies for colorectal and other types of cancer. Peter Dempsey, PhD, professor of ...

Colorectal cancers, which kill more than 900,000 people each year, are notoriously heterogeneous. The cell type and the genetic mutations that give rise to the tumors and the effect of the tumor ...

As individuals, we can’t do much about microplastics. A lot of it ends up in the oceans, the fish are ingesting it and we’re ...

Microbiome is as unique as a fingerprint. These bacteria perform important jobs, including maintaining the intestinal barrier ...

Bowel cancer rates have been rising in people under 55 for years. But scientists have yet to determine the reason.