That stinky armpit smell? It's not you, it's your microbiome

Whether your body odor is oniony, meaty, or fruity depends on the microbes inhabiting your armpits

A new device stops hiccups without silly home remedies

The device consists of a drinking tube with a mouthpiece and a pressurized valve at the bottom

Animals that eat rotting meat have unique gut microbiomes

Novel arrays of bacteria that can degrade toxins were found in a survey of wild animal gut microbiomes

Scientists have figured out what a nasty gut bacterium eats. Can live biotherapeutics help?

They're the next big thing for treating C. diff infection, but developing them is a long process

Scientists starved E. coli for 1200 days to learn about bacterial evolution

They saw two main lineages emerge and compete with each other — all in a single test tube

Sugar may trigger inflammatory bowel disease by breaking down gut mucus

Mice fed sugar-heavy diets have worse colitis and more mucous-degrading gut bacteria

Five sugar-hungry bacteria team up against a nasty stomach bug

Researchers are figuring out how to starve Clostridioides difficile infections