But they also interact with the human nervous system. Microbes can produce compounds that affect the way neurons work. They ...

About the expert Linda Yancey, MD, is a board-certified physician in infectious disease and internal medicine with over two ...

Microplastic pollution is a severe ecological and environmental issue and is also one of the important risk factors affecting ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

Kenny Schroeder, a firefighter hired by the CDC to help recruit participants for the cancer database, said the cuts are “really a gut punch.” “It was the Trump administration that put the ...

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.

"It's been really perplexing," says Dr. Neelendu Dey, a gastroenterologist whose lab focuses on the gut microbiome at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. "The microbes that may contribute to cancer ...

In 2019, Minerbi and his colleagues discovered that the gut microbiomes — the collection of microbes living in the intestines — of women with fibromyalgia differed significantly from those of ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that a gut-dwelling bacteria may be behind the recent surge in early-onset colorectal cancer cases. The potential culprit? Colibactin, a toxin produced by ...

and we are starting to learn more about the exact mechanisms that link those microbes and the substances they generate to changes in human health. The gut microbiome seems to have an extensive and ...