Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious, useful ...

Yolande Kwimi, a lab operations specialist at BiomEdit, pours a solution of nutrients into a container to grow bacteria that engineers can use to help find animal health treatments. (IBJ photo/Eric ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: it wiped out established tumors in mice with a single treatment. The ...

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Recent research into the human microbiome is revealing how closely connected it is to our health. Similarly, scientists are exploring how the microbiome in wildlife species can aid conservation ...