We each carry thousands of different species of microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tracts, and that gut microbiome has a powerful influence on various aspects of our health. Scientists have been ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them. There is pronounced variation in the ...

It takes a huge amount of energy for human brains to grow to their current large size and be maintained over time. Our early human ancestors evolved to grow bigger brains, but the biological changes ...

There are trillions of microbes in the human gut, and many of them perform essential functions that keep us healthy. Researchers have started to decipher some of the connections between gut microbes ...

Urban living with Gizmo the cat. Image: Tim Sandle. Urban living with Gizmo the cat. Image: Tim Sandle. Analysis of gut microbiomes in distantly related vertebrates from urban and rural areas has ...

The human gut microbiome is composed of thousands of different bacteria and archaea that vary widely between populations and individuals. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology in ...

Matthew R. Olm is in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. Justin L. Sonnenburg is in the Department of Microbiology ...

Scientists have turned to advanced AI to decode the intricate ecosystem of gut bacteria and their chemical signals. Using a Bayesian neural network called VBayesMM, researchers can now identify ...

Scientists in Nebraska are using human bacteria to help develop artificial intelligence and the research could one day be ...

Gut microbes are essential partners that help digest food, produce vitamins and train the immune system. They can also pass ...

Fermented foods have been part of human diets for thousands of years, transforming ordinary ingredients into nutritional ...

Are we alone in the universe? The famous SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to answer this question since 1959. American astronomer Carl Sagan, and many others, ...