Over the past two decades, high‑throughput sequencing has dramatically expanded our understanding of the gut microbiome's composition.

Researchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the ...

A study published in the journal Gut Microbes by researcher Eijiro Miyako and a team at the Japan Advanced Institute of ...

Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of "living medicines" used to kill cancer cells. We're still a long way from a "cure" for cancer. But one day we could have programmable, self-navigating ...

Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of cancer, and the incidence of the disease is rising, especially among younger people. Research has suggested that the composition of the gut microbiome, or ...

Bacteria may be the next frontier in cancer treatment, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State that devised a new approach of creating bacteria-derived mixtures—or cocktails—to help fight ...

Fusobacteria are normally associated with the spread of bowel cancer. But now the sensational discovery: the bacteria can ...

Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria's ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Global cancer cases in the under 50s are rising rapidly, increasing by 79 percent between 1990 and 2019 Last year, speakers at the ...

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at cheaper biologic drugs, Novo Nordisk’s $2 billion next-gen obesity drug deal, new ways of fighting cancer, and more. To get it in your inbox, ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells. Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic ...