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Published in Nature, the study followed 714 mother–infant pairs from pregnancy through the first year after birth to track how the infant gut microbiome develops and where its bacterial strains originate

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June 24, 2026 ByJoyce Hendley, Staff Writer

Hyderabad:A new research initiative is looking at whether pills made from faecal matter of carefully screened healthy donors could help treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

The gut microbiome is increasingly recognised as an important piece of the puzzle in metabolic health, but new research suggests there may be no one-size-fits-all gut profile. A recent study found that the gut microbiomes of South Asian populations differ from those reported in other parts of the world and are shaped by factors including…

For decades, the answer to “how much sleep does an adult need?” has been simple: eight hours. The idea dates back to the mid-19th century when the notion of eight hours of work, eight for recreation and eight for sleep first took hold

Women on regimens of estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy are at reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a study by Stanford Medicine investigators has found

While lung cancer mortality in the United States has declined significantly since 1990, incidence trends have been more nuanced. New lung cancer cases have fallen in men since the mid-1980s and in women since the mid-2000s, declining annually by 3.0% and 1.4%, respectively, from 2012 to 2021

A team of scientists from the University of Liège (GIGA Neurosciences), supported by the Stop Alzheimer’s Foundation, has analysed the sleep patterns of more than 500 healthy people. Among middle-aged participants, a higher frequency of nocturnal micro-awakenings was found to be associated with a greater genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, whereas this link was…