Did the bacteria in your guts when you were a baby impact your risk of future disease? Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are aiming to find out. We have talked to two research groups ...

Last year, an elderly hospitalized patient with pneumonia was getting better after three days on powerful pneumonia antibiotics, when bloody diarrhea, cramping, and fever began and his overall ...

Researchers found 19 Bacteroides vulgatus genes that were unique to three strains that show early engraftment in patients after a fecal transplant, as opposed to seven strains that did not show early ...

Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. However, after tens of thousands transplants, little was known about which donor ...

A new genetic study reveals that some gut bacteria and blood chemicals aren’t just linked to short stature—they may be causing it, opening doors to microbiota-based interventions for childhood growth ...