The microbes living in your food can affect your risk of cancer. While some help your body fight cancer, others help tumors evolve and grow. Gut microbes can influence your cancer risk by changing how ...

The microbes living in your food can affect your risk of cancer. While some help your body fight cancer, others help tumors evolve and grow. Gut microbes can influence your cancer risk by changing how ...

Diet influences the gut microbiome. Foods high in fiber, prebiotics, probiotics, and antioxidants can support gut health and ...

Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the 'food microbiome' ...

The microscopic world within our food has long intrigued scientists. Complex microbiomes within what we eat influence our own gut ecosystems, yet the breadth of this microbial diversity remains ...

Microorganisms are everywhere, even inside of our guts. The microbes we interact with can sometimes have a huge influence on our bodies; while some have little or no impact, others might be beneficial ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? By Sara Talpos/Undark Published Aug 22, 2024 8:33 AM EDT This article was ...

In an era of grocery stores and home refrigerators, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that, for most of history, people have been bound by the seasonality of food. This reality has long presented ...

In 2019, an agency within the US Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work ...