From oats to beans to chicory root, each type of fiber acts differently inside the body. New research is revealing how fiber ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings, a study has found. When scientists introduced the microbes into the guts of mice to ...

Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the 'food microbiome' ...

In recent years, scientists have begun to reveal the myriad ways that gut microbes can impact our health; they had identified ...

A new study from Hong Kong reports that some of the microbes found in a range of urban environments are evolving to resist the cleaners we typically use to eliminate them. Just like humans, every city ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate response.