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 ...

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.

The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit every corner of the planet. Bacteria form tiny ...

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 ...

“We now have tools on hand to manage, balance and optimize the microbiome,” Matuschka de Greiffenclau said. With more than 1,700 pathogens in its biobank and 3,000 constructs to start ...