The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor ...

It’s a single-celled parasite that can enter your body without you realizing it. Then this microscopic beast works its way to your brain, settles in and starts eating until it leaves you comatose. If ...

Researchers found that very small numbers of gut bacteria can translocate to the brain in mice, particularly when gut barrier ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You can get both from swimming and both are potentially dangerous, but here’s what you should know about brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria. The two are both rare, but ...

LAKE JACKSON, Texas (KXAN) — Residents of Lake Jackson in Brazoria County, south of Houston, are being warned not to use their tap water because a brain-eating microbe could be inside it. On Friday, ...

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

Eating a diet high in fat could have an unintended effect on the brain, according to researchers at Emory University in Georgia. A new study in mice that ate a fat-heavy diet showed that live bacteria ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is ...

Eating too many high fats? It could cause your gut bacteria to invade your brain - More than half of Americans’ daily diet is ultraprocessed, with products high in fats and sugars ...