Enigmatic organisms called archaea can harvest energy from hydrogen, and new research is revealing exactly how they do it.
Researchers are investigating the eventual fate and function of food-derived bacteria, and the role they play in shaping our gut health and microbiome.
A new study is exploring how to improve gastrointestinal problems that plague endurance athletes, including nausea, vomiting, bloating and diarrhoea.
The Monash University team that developed the world’s first low FODMAP diet for IBS has produced its first cookbook, incorporating gourmet recipes and evidence-based dietary tips.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria causes 700,000 deaths annually, but there are strategies we can use to slow the rapid rise of these superbugs.
Professor Dena Lyras’ continuing mission lies in trying to understand the formidable enemy of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly those in the human gut.
You can have this STI without knowing it, or have symptoms. It can affect men and women, and it can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it may cause complications.
Research is looking at the role a high-fibre diet can play in reducing hypertension.
The five-year water-focused project is revitalising informal settlements in Makassar.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens to take us back to a pre-penicillin era.
There are no approved treatments or cures, and more research is urgently needed for the debilitating illness.
Never heard of bacteriophages? They're the most abundant biological entity on the planet, and play a vital role in keeping us alive.
Vaccination may one day allow coeliac disease sufferers to have their cake and eat it, too – but many questions remain unanswered.
Think you're tough? In the survival stakes, we humans have nothing over our bacterial companions.
Five years on, Monash's FODMAP app continues to change the lives of IBS sufferers.
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