“With this database, we can start surveying at a large scale how the microbial properties of food could impact our health.” One example of this food-to-gut transmission involves strains of ...

This suggests that the fingertips, toe webs and nares might act as reservoirs for transmission and are therefore worth including in sampling efforts for surveillance of microbial infection.

Spouses and siblings who report feeling close to one another are more likely to exhibit gut microbial communities that are similar to one another, according to computational biologist Kimberly ...