Eating foods with live microbes (such as prebiotics and probiotics) reduced the prevalence of frailty in older adults by 17.5% in people who ate a moderate amount and 22.1% in those with high intake, ...

Mental health disorders are on the rise globally, with anxiety affecting millions. While there's no shortage of prescription ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

The research team thus set out to investigate the role microbes play in anxious behaviour. In pre-clinical studies, the scientists observed that in a germ-free environment, those which were not ...

Gut microbes influence anxiety by regulating brain activity, offering potential for probiotic-based mental health treatments.

Could the key to easing anxiety be hidden in our gut? Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Neuroscience Institute have discovered a crucial connection between gut microbes and ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore performed their ninth and fifth spacewalks respectively, with Williams ...

In pre-clinical studies, the scientists observed that in a germ-free environment, those which were not exposed to live microbes, showed significantly more anxiety-related behavior than those with ...

These SK2 channels seem to prevent excessive activity in neurons, when the body is exposed to microbial metabolites. This work seems to show one way that microbes are connected to mental health.

While human diets have long included relatively small quantities of microbes—think of the live bacteria in yogurt, or the oven-killed yeast in bread—researchers at universities and dozens of ...