Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, playing a key role in our health and well-being.

Recent research indicates that consuming high levels of dietary salt for an extended period may disrupt the delicate balance ...

Deep within your GI tract, there lives an active community of microorganisms known as your “gut microbiome.” Despite their ...

Your gut microbiome is the trillions-strong collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in your digestive tract.

A growing amount of research suggests that the mix of bacteria in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, can contribute to ...

In a new study published today in the journal mBio, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) ...

A new study reveals how bacteria in the gut can help determine whether the amino acid asparagine from the diet will feed ...

Learn how chemicals released by gut microbes end up in exhaled breath, and how researchers used those signals to identify ...

Do you know about your microbiome? This army of microbes fights for you, and sometimes when things get out of whack, it can ...

Medications across drug classes can leave long-lasting marks on the gut microbiome, reshaping ecosystems in ways clinicians may soon be able to anticipate.

Tiny wild blueberries may deliver outsized benefits for the heart, metabolism, gut, and brain, according to decades of ...

Lower diversity in the oral microbiome was associated with worse cognitive function in schizophrenia sufferers in a new study ...