An unprecedented look at how the gut microbiome varies among babies in different parts of the world reveals that infants in the West lack a microbe that is common elsewhere. This could aid the ...

Washington, D.C.—In recent years, scientists have learned that key beneficial infant gut bacteria Bifidobacterium infantis are disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the United ...

In recent years, scientists have learned that the key beneficial infant gut bacterium Bifidobacterium infantis is disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the U.S. and Europe. Now, a ...

A global atlas mapping two key gut bacteria in infants around the world has uncovered a treasure trove of bacterial strains adapted to the infant gut and not found in commercial probiotic products. It ...