A new in vitro platform called HUGS allows 32 parallel colonic fermentations with independent pH control, enabling rapid ...

There was a recent flurry of excitement when UK researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research organization in Cambridge, England, announced their creation ...

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor Jeremy J. Barr from Monash University's School of Biological Sciences and ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes from several African sites. The paper, titled "Expanding the human ...

In 2012, researchers published the most extensive population-level analysis of Human Microbiome Project data to date in a pair of papers in Nature as well as 15 other papers published simultaneously ...

The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth. The trillions of microbes that live within us are incredibly important for human health. Yet, we know ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

In 2018, an unusual citizen-science project gave researchers an extraordinary look at the microbes living inside the human gut. Thousands of people collected samples using swabs on used toilet paper ...

In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human intestines condensed into a small chip about half the size of a five-cent coin.

The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth. The trillions of microbes that live within us are incredibly important for human health. Yet, we know ...