It is the year 2036. A patient struggling with depression and anxiety is referred to her local psychobiotics clinic where the ...

"Pretty much everyone agrees that creating so-called 'mirror-life' is a very, very bad idea." Those are the words of Prof ...

From eating at hotel buffets to staying still during a flight, an expert reveals the habits you should avoid while travelling ...

Nadia Mykytczuk believes in the magic of microbes. Mykytczuk, CEO and president of MIRARCO, is using bacteria to break down ...

Deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, scientists discovered a fungus with an extraordinary ability that could offer ...

There are several evidence-based lifestyle and diet changes you can make right now to support your gut. For example, eating ...

Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce ...

Explore the complex balance of risks and benefits in gene drives, a powerful tool in genetic engineering and disease control.

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to map this largely uncharted terrain.

The non-bacterial gut microbiome, particularly fungi and archaea, plays an important role in metabolism, immune regulation, and microbial ecosystem stability through complex interactions with bacteria ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with States Newsroom. It is part of the Grist series Vital Signs, exploring the ways climate change affects your health. This reporting initiative is ...