Although we often conceive of microorganisms — germs — as bad, the vast majority of them are not.

The state of our guts is so revealing about our health. Stress, illness, anxiety can all manifest in our stomachs. “It ...

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Nutrition, researchers explore the relationship between dietary intake of live microorganisms and cardiovascular health (CVH) outcomes among adults in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprising new research shows a small but diverse community of bacteria lives in the placentas of healthy pregnant women, overturning the belief that fetuses grow in a pretty sterile ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative bacterial infections for more than 80 years. These drugs are typically reserved ...

Cheese could be healthier in the future now that microbiologists in Brazil have discovered three novel strains of probiotic bacteria in samples of traditional cheeses. Probiotics are live ...