Unlike many cancers, colorectal cancer has become more lethal for people at younger ages. Doctors are sleuthing out why.

Discover how everyday dietary choices rapidly reshape your gut microbiome and, over time, influence inflammation, metabolism, ...

Through the air we breathe and the food we eat, we can't help but inhale and ingest tiny bits of plastic every day.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Harvard Medical School Professor, Metabolic Health Innovator Metabolism is often reduced to a simple equation of calories in ...

If you want to live to a grand old age, it might help to think of yourself not as a human, but rather a holobiont – a collective of human cells plus the trillions of microbes that live in and on you.

A new study reveals that the gut microbiome is way more complex than people might think. A virus in it may hold the key to ...

An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...

As I mentioned in last week’s column, the human gut microbiome is both a thriving area of research and big business in the venture capital, Silicon Valley startup arena. This has resulted in some ...

Its symptoms aren’t unusual: heartburn, chest pain, and difficulty swallowing. But the etiology of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) isn’t completely understood. Potential causes point to allergies, ...

Spoiler: They do a lot more than just promote a healthy gut.

With general agreement that the microbiome will yield valuable interventions in the years to come, and a resulting influx of capital, it makes sound business sense for companies to set up shop early ...