Increasing evidence suggests that the gut microbiome influences socio-affective behavior, particularly in animals. However, such studies are more challenging to conduct in humans. A team of ...

Disturbed gut flora during the first years of life is associated with diagnoses such as autism and ADHD later in life. This is according to a study led by researchers at the University of Florida and ...

Commensal bacteria (red) amongst the mucus (green) and epithelial cells (blue) in a mouse small intestine. The intestinal microbiota—i.e. all the bacteria, viruses and fungi that inhabit our digestive ...

More than ten years before being diagnosed with child rheumatism, children who developed the disease had a gut flora differing in several ways from that of children who remained healthy. This is shown ...

The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species – not by what they eat. A group of wild reticulated giraffes (Giraffa ...

More than 280,000 people in Germany have multiple sclerosis (MS) and approximately 15,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This makes MS the most common inflammatory disease of the central nervous ...