At any moment, your body hosts trillions of microorganisms, on your skin, in your hair, and especially in your gut. Together ...

The human gut is alive with activity. Millions of microorganisms compete, cooperate, and coexist in ways that can profoundly ...

“In microbiome studies, we can perform all kinds of data analysis and obtain huge piles of figures and results,” Zhu says.

By Andrew Masuda, UC Santa Barbara An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a major research grant from non-profit Wellcome Leap to join an ambitious global […] ...

The gut microbiome and epigenetics—molecular switches that turn genes on or off—are intertwined, and both contribute to ...

Hannah Holscher, a registered dietitian and microbiome researcher, teaches classes about nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Director of the Nutrition and Human ...

Until recently, knowledge of the human microbiome was limited due to the inability to successfully culture the majority of bacterial species in the laboratory. However, research focusing on the ...

Researchers are combining cohort studies and clinical trials to investigate how diet shapes the gut microbiome and impacts ...

Items that we touch or use on our skin every day could affect our health by changing our skin microbiome and making us more or less susceptible to chronic diseases. What exactly a healthy skin ...

Your daily diet may quietly program your gut – and your long-term health – more than genes ever could.