In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers showed that stress-sensitive neural circuits alter the gut microbiome by directly influencing duodenal glands. Gut microbiomes promote ...

Share on Pinterest The collections of bacteria in the gut may play a role in the regulation of stress responses, an animal study suggests. Image credit: Justin Lewis/Getty Images. Experts are ...

Researchers have now discovered that DNA sequence changes known to increase a person's risk for diabetes are linked to how well pancreatic cells can handle two different kinds of molecular stress. In ...

Kevin Morris receives funding for this research from the Morris Animal Foundation, the Human-Animal Bond Research Institute, and the University of Denver. Jaci Gandenberger receives funding from the ...

Scientific publications continue to arrive at the same painful conclusion: Depression is a major problem across the world, and it’s not going away anytime soon. But though we’re still struggling to ...

The Secret Language of Plant Stress Signals When plants face stress, they activate a signaling cascade involving multiple ...

We spend a lot of time indoors. In fact, one survey showed that in a given day, we likely spend less than 8% of our time outside. There’s also been a major transition in where we live, with a mass ...