Your gut microbiome is comprised of the microscopic life in your digestive tract and all the things they produce. Some ...

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

The doctor explained how poor hygiene practices in street food stalls can elevate the risk of stomach infections.

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

Because your gut plays such a big role in your overall health, it's important to recognize when it might be struggling. Changes in digestion, immunity, or even mood can sometimes be tied back to ...

In an intricate interaction spanning domains of life, the bacterium Salmonella hijacks the yeast Candida to make it produce ...

About half of extremely preterm babies have at least one life-threatening bacterial infection in their bloodstream after 72 hours of life. Now, new research points to the babies' own gut microbiomes ...

Gut bacteria are stronger together when it comes to preventing infectious diseases. When a large, diverse community of gut bacteria compete with pathogens for nutrients, the pathogens may not have ...

A recent PNAS study reveals that transient gut infection not only promotes white adipose tissue (WAT) expansion and host weight gain but also optimizes host metabolism for carbohydrates. The human gut ...

Umeå University researchers have found that among the many factors that shape the intestinal microbiota composition, diet has a much stronger impact than defensins, which are intestinal defense ...