The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human health and disease. These microbes help us digest food and absorb nutrients; they can ...

Mice infected with the common gut parasite Tritrichomonas muris are at an increased risk of developing inflammatory colitis, new research shows. These findings expand the type of gut-resident ...

IT has long been suspected that the contractile vacuoles of Protozoa maintain the internal osmotic pressure of the organism above that of the external medium, and it has been argued that, if this is ...