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

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have found two gut bacteria working together that contribute to chronic constipation ...

A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.

People are often told to stay active and eat healthy foods for good health. But there is still plenty of debate about what constitutes a healthy diet, and whether that diet would be the same for all ...

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Some of the hundreds of bacteria found in the digestive systems of humans may be linked to specific diseases like cancer, diabetes and obesity, an international team of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – Bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease was detected in an ice machine at a state-run pediatric hospital in ...

Scientists aboard the Tara Pacific expedition have cataloged thousands of previously unknown microbial species living inside reef-building corals, revealing a vast reservoir of biological compounds ...

Patients with debilitating symptoms are being diagnosed with a condition that has no clinical definition, writes fourth-year medical student. Treatments may do more harm than good.