Step inside Asst. Prof. Sam Light’s lab to learn how scientists are mapping the incredible network of microbes living inside ...

A new study reveals that scratching is not just an annoying reflex — it plays a dual role in immune activation and pathogen ...

The microbiome, the microorganisms that populate ... whereas a low sugar diet, on the other hand, leads to reduced toxin ...

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 ...

The human microbiome is an entire ecosystem of microscopic organisms that live on our skin and inside our body. These microbes are integrated into our immune, digestive, and nervous systems, and are ...

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 ...