Fungi are not just flavoring. A sweeping new review in Gut Microbes finds that eating mold-derived foods and extracts measurably shifts the bacterial landscape of your gut, and the implications reach well beyond tempeh.
For millions of IBS patients cycling through treatments that may or may not work, a new study suggests the answer could be hiding in their stool samples all along.
A new Stanford study flips a common assumption about fecal microbiota transplants in cancer treatment: it's not which microbes arrive, or how many, but whether the donor community actually takes hold and stabilizes.
Researchers have grown centimeter-scale human gut tissue that spontaneously wires itself with a functional nervous system, cutting the maturation timeline in half and surviving transplantation into living rodents.
Six months of structured rehabilitation reshaped the gut microbiome of children with autism, and the changes tracked closely with improvements in sleep and developmental skills.
The bacteria living in your gut may be quietly changing how many calories you actually extract from food, by as much as 150 kilocalories a day, according to a controlled inpatient study from the NIH.
When surgeons operate on the colon or rectum, they don't just cut tissue - they throw the entire gut microbial ecosystem into chaos. A new study reveals that bacteria and fungi recover from that disruption on very different timelines, and the gap between them could shape how patients heal.
Scientists now have strong evidence that specific gut bacteria do not just tag along with colorectal cancer; they help cause it. A sweeping new review maps the molecular mechanisms and points toward therapies that could one day exploit the microbiome against tumors.
Scientists have traced a powerful anti-sepsis signal to a single gut bacterium that sulfates a bile acid into a compound called DCA-3S. In mouse and organoid models, that compound shored up the gut lining and quieted the cytokine storms that make sepsis so deadly.
A new study in Nature Medicine has identified a distinctive gut microbiome signature in Parkinson's patients and people with a genetic risk for the disease, raising the prospect of screening for the condition years before the first tremor or movement problem appears.