microbiome

Your Apple Has 100 Million Microorganisms Living On It. Should You Care?

By Alice Park

How the Microbiome Might Predict Diabetes, Premature Birth and Gut Diseases

By Alice Park

Fecal Transplant Pills Could Become a New Cutting-Edge Treatment for Infections

By Alice Park

This Week in Health: Coffee Might Help You Live Longer

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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Your Eyes Might Be Full of Bacteria. Here's Why That's a Good Thing

The human body is teeming with bacteria, and a lot of it is good for you. Scientists have shown that the microbiome—a community of bacteria that live in the gut and on other places like...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Here’s Why You’re Actually Breaking Out

New research suggests another potential culprit

By Amanda MacMillan

Here’s What’s Really Behind Your Acne Breakouts

About 85% of people get acne at some point in their lives, and scientists have long blamed it on the bacterium Propionibacterium acnes. But so-called P. acnes never entirely explained acne, because research has shown...

By Amanda MacMillan

The Case for Eating Cheese is Stronger Than Ever

"There’s a lot of magic in the food matrix of cheese."

By Mandy Oaklander

Parkinson’s Disease May Be Traced to Gut Bacteria

Researchers have connected gut bacteria to the brain changes in Parkinson’s

By Alice Park

How Gut Bacteria May Predict Belly Fat

Why your poop can be a window into your weight

By Alice Park

Biting Your Nails May Help Your Allergies

It might be gross, but there’s a possible health benefit to biting your nails and sucking your thumb

By Alice Park

The Case Against Antibacterial Soap Is Getting Stronger

A new animal study adds to the growing evidence

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Wine And Coffee Are Good For Your Gut, Study Shows

But you may want to stay away from sugar

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

What Can Happen When You're Way Too Clean

One theory that explains the higher amounts of allergies, asthma and other immune-related conditions today rests on the fact that we’re too clean. Now scientists have some living proof that may actually be the case

By Alice Park

Contact Lenses Fill Your Eyes With Bacteria

But scientists don't yet know if that's necessarily a bad thing

By Mandy Oaklander

Deodorant and Antiperspirant Mess With Your Microbes

A small new study suggests that wearing deodorant or antiperspirant can predict what kinds of bugs colonize your armpits

By Mandy Oaklander

What Your Low-Fiber Diet Does to Your Health

A new mice study shows that bacteria change drastically—and sometimes permanently—in the absence of fiber

By Mandy Oaklander

Babies in the Womb Aren’t So Sterile After All

The ever-growing research on our microbiome — the world of invisible microbes that lives within us — reveals that in utero, babies are exposed to microbes thanks to mom

By Alice Park

How Bacteria and Brown Fat Can Spur Weight Loss

A new study in mice helps explain how gut bugs influence brown fat

By Mandy Oaklander

4 Surprising Ways Science is Battling Aging

New strategies could mean big advances in staying young

By Jeffrey Kluger
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