The over-abundance or lack of certain types of gut bacteria has been linked to everything from depression to heart disease to childhood asthma. Non-invasively determining which microbes make up a ...

The bacteria that are present in a person's gastrointestinal tract can reveal a lot about their health. A newly developed capsule could provide even more information, by gathering bacteria from ...

MIT scientists have created an ingestible sensor that holds smart, genetically engineered bacteria. The bacteria is designed to react to bleeding in the stomach, and its low-power sensor can convey ...

Whether you go in from above or below, probing the inner workings of our innards is a tricky task. Our intestines are an extensive, inaccessible tangle of tubes, full of dark tucks and turns. But with ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can see only so much of the gastrointestinal tract ...

Can a capsule of healthy gut bugs change the future of obesity treatment? New findings from the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute suggest it might. Eight years ago, 87 obese adolescents took ...

The microbiome is home to an estimated 100 trillion bacteria, existing as a dense colony of many different strains and species. Similar to all organisms, bacteria must also compete with one another ...

HZI researchers use cryo-electron microscopy to visualize important bacterial transport channel Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar ...

“Many bacteria are not naked, but rather well-packaged – with a protective shell made of a dense network of sugar molecules that protects them from external environmental influences such as ...