This is a useful way to think about how our gut ecosystems develop. “Your microbiome goes on a journey,” says Alan Walker at the University of Aberdeen, UK. “When you’re born, some bugs ...

In the world of professional sports where high-performance isn’t just some fancy tagline, everything counts and athletes looking for an edge on their opponents ...

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Researchers describe how gut-on-a-chip devices can bridge lab models and human biology. Modeling the microbiome is particularly difficult because of its unique environmental conditions ...

Now there is another culprit: the microbes in our gut. We have long known that our microbiome has a powerful influence on our health, and new research is revealing that this extends to our sleep ...

The researchers combined these results with their participant’s gut microbiome data and put it into a machine learning algorithm, a computer program that can make predictions based on the data ...

We each have a unique phageome constantly interacting with our microbiome (Credit: Getty Images) Phages also keep bacterial populations from getting out of hand. The gut is an ecosystem ...

Take a page out of Homer Simpson’s book and grab a cold one. Beer and the gut microbiome might not seem like they'd have a symbiotic relationship, but drinking one brew every night for four ...

Now, a new study finds that — whether you're vegan, vegetarian or omnivore — the key to a healthy gut microbiome is the same: Eat lots of different plant-based foods. Gut microbes break ...

A new tool can reveal whether someone has a "healthy" gut microbiome by providing a simple ... but they'll need a "basic computer science or bioinformatics background" to interpret the results ...

But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses. Wherever there are bacteria, viruses called bacteriophages lurk in prodigious quantities. These bacteria ...

Here's NPR's Will Stone. WILL STONE, BYLINE: This type of research on the gut microbiome, made up of trillions of tiny organisms, often explores how it may influence diseases and psychiatric ...