The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Dear Doctors: I just finished a tough year in grad school, and my diet hasn't been that great. I know your gut microbiome has a lot to do with good health, and I want to get mine into better shape.

Over the next 12 weeks, researchers checked in on much more than mood alone. They tracked changes in depression and anxiety ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered new evidence that the communities of bacteria living in the uterus may ...

Cancer remains notoriously difficult to treat, partly because tumors co‑opt their surrounding environment, including the ...

Type 2 diabetes may begin leaving clues in the gut long before a diagnosis arrives. In a large Swedish study, people who later developed the disease shared a pattern of bacterial changes years ...

A study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that an intestinal disorder ...

Let’s begin with microbes A microbe is a very small, living organism that’s usually visible only under a microscope. Its name ...

Despite smoking’s known effects on other microbial communities, this study suggests the eye’s surface ecosystem may remain ...

Yet most of these microbes have never been named, let alone understood. That gap is now shrinking. The change comes in part ...

To deal with a leaky gut, your body shunts sugar to your immune system, causing insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and ...

In this single-centre case–control study, Astolfi et al, of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Italy, collected conjunctival swabs ...