Articles Tagged with “MICROBIOME”

Medical research labs have faced a difficult stretch of closed buildings and competing priorities. Yet they have also produced milestone discoveries—and not only on COVID-19.

Autoimmune diseases are on the rise. The hunt is on to find their causes—including bacteria that may trigger the body to pick a fight with itself.

Can microbial communities help treat depression?

Bacteria in the body can soak up or block medications, offering a tantalizing explanation for why drugs sometimes don’t work.

Fecal microbiota transplants run into a semantic crisis.

Does the body have a hidden highway between a mother’s digestive tract and the milk she produces?

Proto’s first 10 years saw policy reforms, genomic gains and a deluge of new data. What next?

Evidence for fecal transplants as effective treatment for stubborn C. diff. infections.

The bacteria inside us may form a symbiotic relationship that not only affects metabolism, but emotions and brain development as well.

In today’s antimicrobial world, broad swaths of humans’ 100 trillion resident bacteria may soon disappear, with profound consequences.