A new study suggests a blood test could distinguish gallbladder cancer from gallstones by tracking changes in metabolites and bile acids.

In bile acid diarrhoea, a form of chronic diarrhoea, the body does not recycle bile acids properly. It is most commonly caused when bile acids are overproduced in people who have no damage to the bile ...

Bile acid diarrhoea (BAD) is a prevalent but poorly understood cause of chronic diarrhoea; bile acid malabsorption occurs in ileal disease, but the primary disorder without malabsorption is more ...

Bile acid is a liquid substance your liver produces to aid in food digestion. Your body usually releases bile at the correct levels based on the food you eat. But sometimes your body produces too much ...

Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats. It turns out that two of these microbially-modified bile acids may affect ...

Efforts to raise gut health awareness, including the ‘blue poop challenge’, have recently made quite a, *ahem*, splash across social media. Participants eat dyed muffins to measure their individual ...

The intestine-selective FXR knockout mice were generated by cross-breeding of mice with loxP sites flanking the last FXR exon, containing the ligand-binding domain (described by Sinal et al 4), with ...