Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...

US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Maryland and the National Institute of ...

While immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment have had monumental benefits for cancer care, dichotomy in cohorts of patients who respond and do not respond to these modalities remains a ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...