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

Administering antibiotics cleans the gut of harmful bacteria, allowing beneficial bacteria to flourish. The study found that two helpful bacteria, Parasutterella excrementihominis and Lactobacillus ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found that short-term antibiotic treatment significantly reduced neuroinflammation and ...

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 ...

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

Two mucus-degrading gut bacteria may be quietly drying out the colon, triggering chronic constipation that doesn’t respond to usual treatments.

There are two different types—and they serve completely separate purposes.

BACKED up? Scientists have discovered a new type of ‘bacterial constipation’ that laxatives, fibre supplements and diet ...

Our gut houses a vast community of bacteria, a large number of which remain to be identified. Recently, an observation caught the attention of scientists: a specific group of bacteria, named ...

But if you’re sensitive to lactose or concerned about it affecting your digestion, you don’t need to avoid cheese completely.