The typical path begins with cutting out dairy, wheat or soy and may end in donning a wildly unsexy hospital robe for a colonoscopy to check for polyps or cancer. But more recently, probiotics are ...

Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s ...

Bacteria are helping to enhance the body's immune system's ability to attack cancer cells. This phenomenon is paving the way ...

Newfound appreciation for the role of probiotics in human health has opened up a rich area for discovery. The platform technology of Synlogic, Inc., uses synthetic biology to genetically engineer ...

Some bacteria can cause mutations associated with colon cancer. Insights about the surface adhesion proteins that enable ...

Probiotics include yogurts that contain "good ... Parkinson's, whether cancer drugs work and even depression and autism Trillions of bacteria call the lining of our guts home and everyone has ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells. Columbia researchers have engineered ...

Every now and then I come across a research article that makes me say, “Wow.” Here’s one of those on the benefits of fiber for cancer patients — and all of us. Researchers found that every 5-gram ...