Just one milligram of an artificial sweetener is terrible for your gut.

How that good bacteria might protect against breast cancer is the next question.

Looks like we were meant to have a little dirt in our lives.

Another nutritional supercraze bites the dust.

One more reason to eat more fresh food.

With alarming implications for human health.

From borderline science fiction, to accepted scientific truth.

Last year, scientists linked a deadly intestinal condition for which premature babies are commonly at-risk, to an imbalanced gut microbiome. Now, newer research is helping clarify the root cause of necrotizing enterocolitis – and identify a preventative treatment. Researchers from 

Probiotics seem to be on everyone’s lips and in everyone’s stomachs. These supplements full of ‘good’ bacteria are the latest health craze that claim to cure our bodies’ ills and prevent the same in our children. Maybe they can and 

A large-scale scientific review has confirmed what the Internet has been shouting about and parents of kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been trying to manage for years: a link between the make-up of gut bacteria and autism. Until now, autism 

You can put that put that vaginal swab away now. The infant microbiome has been in the news for about a decade, now, after a 2006 study found that babies born via C-section had poorer microbiomes than babies born vaginally. The research 

Gut bacteria – for a decidedly unsexy topic, it’s been all the rage in the health community, touted as the key to everything from obesity to autism to depression. But when we talk about gut bacteria, what do we mean?