New findings outline a set of molecular signs that indicate a person has—or is at risk for—potentially dangerous diarrhea from C. difficile.

Therapeutic food for malnutrition in children works better when it also addresses the gut microbiome, research finds.

A newly-discovered biomarker could help diagnose inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic gut conditions.

Gut bacteria may be partly to blame for a serious autoimmune disease, antiphospholipid syndrome, that raises the risk of blood clots.

A machine learning approach allowed "a diagnosis of fibromyalgia, based only on the composition of the microbiome, with an accuracy of 87%."

Targeted treatment with an antibiotic reduces the size of lesions in mice with endometriosis, researchers say.

A certain subtype of a common kind of gut bacteria kills "good" microbes. Could it even lead to cancer?

"...the gut microbiome signatures in colorectal cancer seem to be universal. This is despite geography, culture, and lifestyle."

Probiotics adapt to the gut, research finds. "...what you put in your body is not necessarily what's going to be there even a couple hours later."

Research with germ-free mice offers clues to how microbiota in mothers and babies may influence susceptibility to diseases, including cancer, later on.