Currently, C. difficile is first treated with antibiotics like vancomycin, against which the bacteria has not developed a ...

The systematic review highlights that while nuts influence gut microbiota, the effects are modest and vary by nut type, ...

Methods: We conducted an integrated analysis of fecal shotgun metagenomics, fecal metabolome concerning B vitamins and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), and obese phenotypes in a cohort of 63 ...

The article summarizes results of research and possible future clinical applications of the microbiome and provides ...

This treatment could benefit many different kinds of patients, but doctors will first need to address its unintended ...

Both diagnostic and therapeutic use of the microbiota will become reality within the next 5–10 years. It emerges from an "informative" article published in Cell, written by doctors for doctors, to ...

The first product from BiomEdit—engineered microbes that protect broiler chickens from necrotic enteritis—could hit the ...

Fecal microbial transplants, or FMTs, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration only for treating repeated infections with Clostridium difficile, an opportunistic bacterium that often causes ...

New research warns that fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) can lead to long-lasting mismatches in gut regions, causing metabolic and behavioral shifts.