Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Scientists have long suspected that the trillions of microbes in our intestines do more than digest lunch, but new work goes ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

Northwestern University research has provided direct experimental evidence that gut microbes influence brain function and ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...