It turns out your mouth may know more about your metabolism than your bathroom scale. New research shows that people with ...

Your gut bacteria are constantly sensing, moving, and sharing nutrients to keep the microbiome thriving.

Scientists created smart underwear that measures farts, helping researchers track gut microbes and define what normal ...

A mysterious, hard-to-grow gut bacterium keeps showing up in healthy people worldwide—and it may be quietly protecting our microbiomes.

The circumstances surrounding a study on a deadly virus could hardly have been more dramatic. One of its first authors was forced to flee his homeland when it became a war zone. More than 2,000 ...

Despite all the buzz about the body’s microbiome and maintaining good gut health, many people may be surprised to learn that gut health may even affect personality and fertility. Dr. Sabine Hazan, a ...

As researchers unlock the diagnostic and therapeutic promise of the human microbiome, a new roadmap highlights the urgent need for standardization, better evidence, and clinician education to ...

A new study highlights the urgent need for global equity in vaginal microbiome research, challenging outdated perspectives and pushing for better diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for female ...

Driven by a fascination with bacteria, microbiologist Julie Kopczyńska has trawled through existing research on the gut microbiome and created an easy-to-use gut health calculator. She says it's a ...

The first population-level study on the correlation between mental health and gut microbiome—based on data from over a thousand individuals enrolled in the Flemish Gut Flora Project (FGFP)—is ...