Imagine a bustling metropolis within your mouth—a dynamic community of microorganisms forming biofilms on your teeth and gums ...

The microbiome, the microorganisms that populate ... whereas a low sugar diet, on the other hand, leads to reduced toxin production. The researchers are currently exploring alternative, more ...

The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as the human gut). This can also be referred to as the ...

Many experts now believe a reckoning is at hand, and that progress in the clinical application of gut microbiome data depends on researchers weighing the strengths and weaknesses of their methods.

In such cases, it may be difficult to separate the antibiotic’s effects on the microbiome from illness-related alterations. So researchers—including Dantas and his colleague, infectious disease ...

The UAB Microbiome Center works to ensure that vital cores necessary to perform microbiome-related work are accessible to investigators at UAB. The Microbiome Center promotes new and established ...