Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has long been treated as a disease of the brain and spinal cord. A study published in May 2026 ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when ...

Even in her final years, María Branyas Morera’s microbiome looked more like that of someone decades younger, with a wide ...

Immune genes have been found to help shape the gut microbiome in wild animals, potentially benefitting health and survival. Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UK) have uncovered a hidden ...

Consumption of soft drinks, supplemented with white sugar, alters the DNA of gut bacteria and affects the host immune system. The good news? These effects are reversible. The findings by researchers ...

A groundbreaking study carried out in Israel and Ethiopia, and released on Thursday, sheds light on how bacteria in the gut can actively boost the immune defenses in people living with early stages of ...

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New research suggests that our microbiomes can even help us resist the effects of ageing... If we treat them right.

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