According to Michael Hartman, Ph.D., vice president of research and development at Plexus Worldwide, nurturing these ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

Researchers have developed a targeted approach to combat periodontitis without disrupting the natural balance of the oral ...

Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could ...

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have not yet been translated to practical recommendations for ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...