Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. x-ray image of skull and brain The microbes living in our guts may have helped humans grow bigger brains. Lab experiments revealed ...

The human gut harbors a complex ecosystem of trillions of microorganisms (the microbiome), which influences digestion, the ...

For over a hundred years, we have searched for the human sixth sense. Now researchers believe we may have not just one. but ...

The bacterium Segatella copri is one of the most common inhabitants of the human gut. In their latest study, researchers at ...

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

The human gut microbiome contains about 4,500 different types of bacteria that help keep your body working properly. However, ...

Although it well known that the human gut contains a large and diverse array of bacteriophages, a functional understanding of the phage–host interactions is limited. This is, in part, due to a lack of ...

The average human gut contains roughly 100 trillion microbes, many of which are constantly competing for limited resources. "It's such a harsh environment," says César de la Fuente, Presidential ...

There was a recent flurry of excitement when UK researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research organization in Cambridge, England, announced their creation ...

Certain gut bacteria might play a key role in letting us know when we've eaten enough, new research shows. Reading time 3 minutes There really is something to the concept of having a gut feeling. New ...