Hundreds of different species of microbes live, laugh, and love in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: microscopic in-house pharmacist.

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

Findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal mBio, highlight key differences in the gut microbiome ...

Researchers find that unique bacterial species, known as the “sexome,” are transferred between individuals during sexual ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed ...

New research shows that we regularly transfer traces of our genital microbiomes to sexual partners—a discovery that could ...

Forensic scientists investigating cases of sexual assault may be able to use the genital microbiome to identify the ...

The bacterial composition of our genital microbiome is as unique as we are, and it's transferred during sex, according to new ...

"Conducting research through the SEA-PHAGES program was the first time in my academic career where I felt what I learned in ...