Among the trillions of microbes that live in the gut, one obscure bacterium has suddenly become a star of obesity research.

The field of microbiome research has increasingly revealed the intricate connections between gut microbial communities and overall human health. Recent ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

The effects of spaceflight on those beneficial microbes that associate with animal tissues is an emerging area in space biology, however, many questions persist regarding how homeostasis between host ...

The human gut microbiome is complex and diverse, with significant implications for health and disease. The study develops smRandom-seq2, a droplet-based method that overcomes the limitations of ...

The image depicts gut microbes producing secondary bile acids to support the host’s immune defense against cancer. Microbiota-derived bile acids (shown in light green) blocked the androgen receptor ...

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Bacterial pathogenesis, evolution, and genomics intersect critically with the ongoing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which poses significant ...

“Extrapolating from the medical field, we know that the microbiome influences almost everything that we do, from the way we think, from what kind of food we eat, from our own responses towards a ...