A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: ...

Tree frog gut bacteria eliminated 100% of colorectal tumors in mice, but human cancer treatment faces safety hurdles and ...

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, ...

A compound produced by gut bacteria could play a vital role in managing and preventing type 2 diabetes, according to a study ...

Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...

In recent decades, the microbiome has emerged as a dynamic ecosystem, an “invisible organ” that plays a crucial role in systemic health and, more recently, in ophthalmology.When naturally balanced, ...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising way to influence bacteria—not by killing them, but by changing how they communicate.

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According ...

In recent years, scientists have learned that the key beneficial infant gut bacteria Bifidobacterium infantis are ...

A study led by researchers at the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has uncovered alarming ...

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that healthy vertebrates can have brain microbiomes. Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in Quanta ...

Now, a team of researchers have curated the largest-ever database of microorganisms from more than 2,500 different foods. 4 The collection, published in Cell, includes over 500 new microbial species ...