A database of 33,000+ gut viruses reveals scope for further research on how these microbes can help combat antibiotic resistant super-bugs.

Auto-brewery syndrome occurs when the gut microbiome goes on a bender.

The explanation helps clarify the known link between gut microbiome alterations and diseases like diabetes.

And even if you're unhealthy, probiotic drinks might not contain the bacteria you need.

The research paves the way for more targeted health treatments.

A sanitized environment may not be as good for kids as we think.

Researchers aren't sure of the health implications yet.

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