One of the most common chronic infections on Earth lives silently in the human stomach, often taking hold in childhood and ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, and researchers have spent years looking beyond diet and ...

Scientists found a gut bacterium that floods the liver with ammonia, potentially driving advanced fatty liver disease.

About two-thirds of us have it in our bodies, but for most people, the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori for short) never causes any symptoms. In others, it's a common cause of peptic ulcers, ...

Researchers have discovered a new bacterium that weakens the immune system in the gut, potentially contributing to certain inflammatory and infectious gut diseases. The team identified the bacterium, ...

A low-fiber "Western diet" causes damage to the protective mucus barrier in the gut, and such damage can increase the risk of inflammation and infection. By studying the gut bacteria of people who ...

But there could be another route to keeping the pounds away, and that's with a gut bacterium called Turicibacter. According to the World Health Organization, around 1 in 8 people are living with ...

New research shows that a certain bug, Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis), can facilitate healing of hard-to-treat wounds among people with diabetes. While there are many studies done on potentially ...

The inner workings of a supposedly simple bacterial cell have turned out to be much more sophisticated than expected. An in-depth “blueprint” of an apparently minimalist species has revealed details ...