Here’s what probiotics really do, why they work and how to get more of them in your diet.

Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an entire plant just to extract a few specific compounds is rather inefficient, ...

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles. Even better, it's entirely pain-free and not ...

The microbial community living within our large intestine is a highly dense and complex ecosystem. While some of these microbes cause illness and disease (such as bacteria and viruses), others are ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed a fascinating connection between digestive health and skin appearance, known as the gut-skin axis. Research indicates that an imbalanced gut microbiome ...

The microbial community living within our large intestine is a highly dense and complex ecosystem. While some of these microbes cause illness and disease (such as bacteria and viruses), others are ...

Gut health has become the buzzword in wellness circles and with good reason. Our guts – the stomach, intestines, and colon – are home to thousands of species of unique, good bacteria that help ...

Probiotics are considered friendly bacteria, and by introducing them to the gastrointestinal tract through diet or supplements, the idea is one of bacterial domination, according to Catherine Wilbert, ...

WASHINGTON — Bacteria live on everyone’s skin, and new research shows some friendly germs produce natural antibiotics that ward off their disease-causing cousins. Now scientists are mixing the good ...

A natural compound derived from gut-friendly bacteria significantly slows the progression of vitiligo and may restore pigmentation, reports a new pre-clinical study in mice. A natural compound derived ...

If you want to live to a grand old age, it might help to think of yourself not as a human, but rather a holobiont – a collective of human cells plus the trillions of microbes that live in and on you.

Nearly 20 million people die every year from cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide. Genetic and environmental factors influence a person’s risk of disease and severity, but ...