A small study found no evidence that smoking causes large or consistent shifts in the ocular surface microbiome or tear ...

A new preclinical study from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has identified a gut bacterium that, when ...

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

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 ...

Colorectal cancer is associated with certain microbiomes that produce microbial signatures that can be detected by a ...

The gut microbiome has dominated wellness conversations for years, but the community of bacteria living in your mouth may ...

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

Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form communities that help digest food, fend off harmful microbes, and play many other ...

The microbiome has immense power to shape health outcomes. The bacteria that take up residence in the human body, including the gut, have been shown to impact health and disease, including ...

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

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes from several African sites. The paper, titled "Expanding the human ...