Registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett explains a debate about whether diet or environment has the biggest impact ...

The gut microbiome, an ecosystem of trillions of microorganisms in the human digestive tract, has been increasingly linked to ...

People with chronic liver disease have dramatic changes to the types and functions of bacteria in the gut and mouth, a new study has revealed.

A healthy skin microbiome plays a crucial role in regulating our immune system and preventing chronic health issues, such as ...

Efforts to combat hyperuricemia may find help from gut microbes, according to Dylan Dodd, MD, PhD, who spoke at the annual ...

The study in Cell highlights microbial load's role in gut microbiome variation, suggesting it as a confounder in disease ...

Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that could ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide, accounting for 10% of all cancer deaths in the UK during ...

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and ...

Newsweek spoke with three doctors about the rising rates of colorectal cancer in young people and the lifestyle changes that ...