Why do parasites cause loss of appetite? Scientists have identified a gut-to-brain signaling pathway involving tuft cells and ...

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

Researchers found that intestinal tuft cells signal to crypt enterochromaffin cells by releasing acetylcholine, triggering serotonin release and activating a gut-to-brain vagal pathway during type 2 ...

Scientists have uncovered how your body actually tells your brain to stop eating when you’re sick. In a new study, researchers found that specialized cells in the gut detect parasites and send signals ...

A study reveals how gut immune cells signal the brain to reduce appetite, with acetylcholine-driven activation of serotonin ...

Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...

SAN DIEGO — Brain-eating worms known as "rat lungworm" have been found in San Diego County, the first time the parasitic worms have been found in any state west of Texas. According to new research ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have recently found ...

Scientists finally cracked the mystery of why infections kill your appetite—and it all starts with hidden gut cells talking to your brain.