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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...