Antibiotics are powerful treatments that have saved countless lives over the course of decades. New findings from Scripps Research have identified a way to preserve healthy immune development even ...

Your gut microbiome is like a thriving city of 100 trillion microscopic residents, invisible to the naked eye, living in your gut. No gut microbiome is the same – making yours truly one of a kind, ...

A large study of rats shows that genes shape the gut microbiome in two ways: directly, by influencing an individual’s own ...

Artificial sweeteners promise sweetness with few or no calories, driving both their popularity and controversy. Recent studies have raised questions about their impact on the gut microbiome- a complex ...

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

Every time you eat a meal, you’re hosting a dinner party. Your guests are the trillions of microbes that live in your gut. These hungry microbes, collectively known as your gut microbiome, directly ...

Some everyday medications could be impacting your gut health in the long term. A large study from Estonia has found that the gut microbiome — or the ecosystem that lives in the intestines — can be ...

For years, mental health was seen as something that started and ended in the brain. But an expanding field of research is revealing a key player in the story of our emotions: the gut. The trillions of ...