"...targeting Piezo1 might be a new and ideal strategy to cure MS while preserving the immune system's ability to fight new infections."

A new method beats the number of birthday candles on your cake in predicting your risk for the illness, frailty, and decline that come with aging.

A diet rich in fermented foods like yogurt, kimchi, and kombucha can enhance your microbiome and reduce inflammation, researchers find.

"There is a clear link between skin inflammation and changes in the gut microbiome due to food intake," researchers report.

C. difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in developed countries. New findings may help treat and even prevent it.

A cardiac MRI of college athletes who had COVID-19 was seven times more effective in detecting inflammation of the heart than symptom-based testing.

Processed diets might promote chronic infections that can lead to disorders such as diabetes, according to new research in mice.

Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.

Research into how chronic inflammation promotes muscle fibrosis could lead to new therapies for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease.

Cocoa powder added to the diet of obese mice markedly reduced the severity of liver disease. Researchers suggest the findings have implications for people.