Context: The rising antibiotic resistance in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection have made treatment more challenging. A low-nickel diet may improve eradication rates based on the bacteria’s ...

The urea breath test is used to detect Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a type of bacteria that may infect the stomach and is a main cause of ulcers in both the stomach and duodenum (the first part of ...

Remember when everyone blamed spicy food and stress for those burning stomach pains? Turns out we’ve been pointing fingers at the wrong culprits all along. The real villain behind most stomach ulcers ...

Oxidative stress contributes to the development of cardiometabolic diseases and cancers. Numerous studies have highlighted the adverse effects of high reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in the ...

Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge ...

Preparation for the breath test involves abstaining from certain medications for several weeks and fasting food and water a few hours before the test. The test is safe during pregnancy and for ...

Carbon dioxide is essential for life. It is at the beginning of every life process as a substrate of photosynthesis. It is at the end of every life process as the product of post-mortem decay.

Self-propelling micro- and nano-motors (MNMs) have been extensively investigated as an emerging oral drug delivery carrier for gastrointestinal (GI) tract diseases. However, the propulsion of current ...

Our work provides insights into how cells solve the problem of delivering nickel, a toxic metal, to the active site of a metalloenzyme such as urease. Urease, a nickel-containing enzyme, is a ...