Recent work in humans and mice highlights how exposure to environmental microbes helps protect against allergies and other inflammatory diseases.

Researchers find strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae that produce high levels of alcohol in 60 percent of patients with the condition.

Curbing the growth of harmful bacteria in mouse microbiomes reduces the animals’ incidence of inflammation-related colorectal cancer.

Neither the maternal microbiome nor housing conditions appear to permanently alter which microbes remain in the animals.

Detailed imaging of the rodent central nervous system reveals new information about the route cerebrospinal fluid takes to leave the brain.

Staff at the UK’s Harwell Institute were notified that a strategy board recommended halting its academic work, but a final decision is months away.

When hair follicle stem cells lose their protein-based death cue, they take on a new role helping to repair wounds in skin.

T cells modified to target disease-contributing B cells improved survival in two mouse models of the autoimmune disease.

Researchers develop an app that can estimate the biological age of a rodent from its mug shot—and could give a boost to the science of human aging in the process.