Tag: Nature Microbiology

  • Health

    Vaginal bacteria must eat to survive — but how?

    Chemical analysis brings understudied microbiome into sharper focus.

    4 minutes
    Close-up shot bacteria in petri dish.
  • Health

    You are what you eat — and how you cook it

    Scientists have recently discovered that different diets — say, high-fat versus low-fat, or plant-based versus animal-based — can rapidly and reproducibly alter the composition and activity of the gut microbiome, where differences in the composition and activity can affect everything from metabolism to immunity to behavior.

    6 minutes
    Professor Rachel Carmody