As well as having a role in lipid absorption, bile acids can act as endocrine-signaling molecules. With previous studies suggesting that bile acids operate as metabolic integrators, Watanabe et al.

Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats.

Lithocholic acid is one such secondary metabolite, made by gut bacteria from a bile acid produced by the host. But the idea ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers revealed how gut microbial bile acids impact colon cancer. One bile acid slows ...

The poultry industry loses up to $6 billion annually due to necrotic enteritis, a preventable intestinal disease in poultry, ...

A MedUni Vienna study has identified a new approach to the drug treatment of metabolic liver diseases. In an experimental ...