microbiome

April 12, 2022

A balanced microbiome should reduce sugar cravings and inflammation, and improve your sleep.

January 6, 2020

The idea is to create a therapy involving swabs of an entire healthy skin microbiome, as an alternative to antibiotics.

October 30, 2019

Large, mobile gene clusters protect against a type of toxic attack by rival bacteria.

May 29, 2019

The apparent linkage between the makeup of the microbiome and preterm births could eventually be used to develop strategies to prevent prematurity.

November 6, 2018

A new study will eventually enroll 800 mothers to study the practice's effectiveness. 

Pregnant woman
November 9, 2018

When babies transition from the womb to the world, they pick up a population of beneficial bacteria, or microbiome, from their mother’s birth canal that would enhance protections from disease. But in the case of C-sections, some moms have been a

July 6, 2018

Most of your gut microbiome, or your intestinal flora, is dominated by two classes of bacteria—firmicutes and bacteroidetes—and research has shown that obese people typically have a significantly higher ratio of the former to the latter.

February 7, 2018

Each year about millions of Americans will start a diet without considering its relevance to long-term health.

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February 6, 2018

Some 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. Most don't realize that, in doing so, they are changing their microbiomes.

September 27, 2017

Strains try to gain dominance by injecting competitor strains with toxins

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