The incidence of asthma, autoimmune diseases and obesity has increased in children in recent decades. New research from the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York shows the rates of these conditions ...

Instead of killing bacteria, scientists found a way to gently guide gut microbes to produce compounds linked to longevity and healthier aging.

Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 ...

The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent study published in the journal Nature.

Researchers have mapped how microbes underpin our food systems—and how we can stop their decline. Published in Frontiers in Science, their map of "agri-food system microbiomes" reveals how players at ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

"It's like a new world that we didn't know existed before," one Eastern Connecticut State University researcher said.

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

A major new review of human studies finds consistent differences in gut bacterial communities between people with mild ...