Obesity is linked to changes in our gut microbes — the trillions of tiny organisms that inhabit our intestines. But the mechanism has not been clear. In a new study published in Nature, a Yale-led team of researchers has identified how an altered gut...
Women may face a double whammy when it comes to weight gain, a new Yale-led study has found.
Male mice on a high-fat diet add cells in visceral white adipose tissue, which makes up the lion’s share of stomach fat, but they do not gain more cells in...
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, will lead a major research initiative to advance the basic science underlying food allergies in collaboration with partners at the Broad Institute of MIT and...