In a series of experiments, researchers found that a communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to ...

Long-term registry-linked analysis of nearly 15,000 adults shows that antibiotic use is associated with persistent changes in gut microbiome diversity and composition for up to 4–8 years. These ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a human stool reference material that will help scientists accurately measure the gut microbiome. The initiative aims to speed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Harvard Medical School Professor, Metabolic Health Innovator Metabolism is often reduced to a simple equation of calories in ...

Microbiome composition and diversity in the AWI-Gen 2 cohort. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08485-8 The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new ...

Study finds major methodological differences across seven direct-to-consumer stool tests, producing taxonomic profiles as variable as those between individuals — limiting clinical use.

As researchers unlock the diagnostic and therapeutic promise of the human microbiome, a new roadmap highlights the urgent need for standardization, better evidence, and clinician education to ...

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Yakult. About this content. We are not alone in our bodies. Each person is home to trillions of bacteria, viruses ...

It is theorized that probiotics improve skin barrier hydration through multiple mechanisms, including modulation of the skin microbiome,’ according to the authors.

Many people think of the skin, or perhaps the lungs, as the principal barrier between human bodies and the outside world. Arguably, it is neither. Many would argue that our most intimate relationship ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes* from several African sites. The gut microbiome has a significant ...