Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

Study in mice suggests potential for probiotic treatment. Although previous research has linked pesticide exposure to harmful effects on gut microbes, a new study is the first to chart how specific ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Snot plays a powerful role in protecting us from disease – and its colour alone can provide insights into what's going on in ...

Tokyo: A new study from the University of Tokyo has used a powerful type of artificial intelligence called a Bayesian neural ...

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, as are the ways in which they interact with the body's chemistry and each ...

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. The human body comprises about 30 trillion to 40 trillion cells, but your intestines contain about 100 trillion gut bacteria.

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

The Cambridge team tested 89 strains of bacteria, many of them commonly found in the human gut. They discovered that at least 38 could absorb significant amounts of PFAS, especially longer-chain types ...

Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that certain bacteria naturally living in the human gut can absorb ...

Scientists are just beginning to understand the microbes that have been with us for millennia — the so-called microbiome, ...