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

Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

A research team at McMaster University has developed a targeted approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using ...

The microbiome is a gut-wrenching mystery. One day, it’s the key to immortality; the next, it’s just along for the ride. If you’ve ever been told to fear sweeteners, shun sugar, and bow to fermented ...

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 ...

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

Even if we can't see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...

Scientists blended one sample, split it, and shipped it out. What came back exposed a problem the whole industry shares.

WONDERLAB, a leading Chinese probiotics company ranked No.1 in probiotic sales in China,¹ has published the Targeted Microbiota Weight Management White Paper, a strain-specific framework for ...

There's no scientific evidence that the gut microbiome causes autism, a group of scientists argue in an opinion paper published in Neuron. They point to the fact that conclusions from past research ...