Multimorbidity (MM), the presence of two or more chronic conditions, is increasingly common in clinical practice. Recent ...

In a recent study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers use a genome-mining technique to investigate respiratory electron acceptor utilization in the human gut microbiota. Study: Dietary- and ...

Chilean researchers have characterized for the first time a novel duplication of exon 2 of the PAH gene, responsible for phenylketonuria (PKU), a hereditary metabolic disorder that causes the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

New research shows that some groups of bacteria in the gut are amazingly resourceful, with a large repertoire of genes that help them generate energy for themselves and potentially influence human ...

Population aging is reshaping the landscape of respiratory disease, with COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiectasis, ...