The human gut microbiome, or the trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, are essential to our health. These microbes help us digest food and absorb nutrients, for example, but they also ...

Najeeha Talat Iqbal is an associate professor in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Majdi ...

Malnutrition is a leading cause of death in children under age 5, and nearly 150 million children globally under this age have stunted growth from lack of nutrition. Although an inadequate diet is a ...

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, along with international collaborators, have introduced a novel method for identifying the crucial set of gut microbes commonly found in humans and ...

Malnutrition is a leading cause of death in children under age 5, and nearly 150 million children globally under this age have stunted growth from lack of nutrition. Although an inadequate diet is a ...

Could personalized microbiome modulation hold the key to reversing age-related decline? As the biohacker community experiments with gut-focused interventions, Bruno Balen, co-founder of AI-driven ...

From skin inflammation and chronic lung disease to obesity and diabetes, researchers are uncovering how targeted microbiome interventions could reshape disease treatment by harnessing the therapeutic ...

In the jungle of microbes living in your gut, there's one oddball that makes methane. This little-known methane-maker might play a role in how many calories you absorb from your food, according to a ...

The blue muffin challenge. Food sensitivity tests. Microbiome test kits. Self-help gastrointestinal health is all the rage. Rightly so: One in four Americans is affected by digestive disorders. And we ...

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