At-home microbiome tests are having a moment. You mail in a stool sample and get back a report on your gut bacteria, along ...

Everyone's mailing in stool samples for a gut report, but can an at-home microbiome test actually tell you anything?

Before you overhaul your diet based on a stool test, here's what actually moves your gut health, no kit required.

Despite its popularity, the science and regulations surrounding microbiome testing are still catching up, highlighting the ...

The lack of replicability of microbiome studies is a barrier to understanding how host–microbe interactions contribute to physiological homeostasis and pathophysiological processes, including heart ...

Healthcare professionals consider a healthy pancreatic elastase level above 200 micrograms per gram (mcg/g). Pancreatic elastase is the digestive enzyme that the pancreas produces to help digest food.

Measurements of prokaryotic absolute abundance can provide important insights into human gut microbiome biology and correct misinterpretations of relative abundance data. Despite the existence of ...

Parents may soon be able to determine whether their young child has autism by using a new stool test kit developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The test, which analyzes gut ...