Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have discovered that a particular protein in the gut is ...

Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer's disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and ...

In recent years, scientists have begun to reveal the myriad ways that gut microbes can impact our health; they have identified relationships between bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract and the ...