As a result, the evolutionary pressures that once favored the appendix have largely disappeared. Meanwhile, the medical risks of keeping the appendix – most notably appendicitis – remain. Modern ...

Antibiotic resistance is widely linked to antibiotic misuse, yet growing evidence suggests that everyday environmental ...

New research shows how oceans can be used to help address major challenges such as the shortage of antimicrobial medicines, solutions for plastic pollution and novel enzymes for genome editing. In the ...

A new scientific review has uncovered how complex microbial communities, including those in the human gut and the natural environment, act as powerful engines that drive the evolution and spread of ...

Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 ...

How much can six days of eating just oats, milk, and water change your gut microbiome? According to a recent exploratory study published in eGastroenterology, the answer is more complex than expected.

Among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), microbial diversity was lowest in those with Crohn’s disease, where coffee and whole wheat bread intake was linked to reduced disease activity ...