In the gut, beneficial bacteria support digestion and nutrient absorption — but their influence reaches far beyond that.

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

Emerging evidence supports the skin microbiome as a promising avenue for precision medicine in the treatment of dermatologic diseases.

Researchers find that short-term antibiotics can heal traumatic brain injuries by remodeling the gut microbiome and reducing neuroinflammation.

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...