Gut Bacteria

The make-up and volume of bacteria in the gut, known as the microbiome, in 1-year-old infants may predict type 1 diabetes decades before any clinical signs of disease appear, suggests new research, published in Diabetologia (the...

To save a child who is hungry, aid workers have long used one certain treatment: food. But a new study suggested that giving their gut bacteria as food is also as important—or even more important—than feeding...