I first met Farkle two months ago. Farkle was in for her annuals: her vaccines and tests that we recommend every year. Farkle’s heartworm, Lyme, Ehrlicia, Anaplasmosis and stool sample […] ...

Scientists have found that a common bacterium that usually lives in the mouth can help stomach cancer grow by feeding tumors with a substance they use as fuel. The discovery suggests that this ...

Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

If a blue-and-white box has arrived at your door, you’re not alone. Millions of adults across the U.S. now receive a use-at-home colorectal cancer screening test through their health insurance or ...

Jeffrey Epstein's files reveal connections to Asheville, Hendersonville and WNC, including FBI surveillance, victims and ...

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

Identical stool samples sent to seven direct-to-consumer microbiome testing companies produced substantially different ...

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...

US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Maryland and the National Institute of ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...