Among the trillions of microbes that live in the gut, one obscure bacterium has suddenly become a star of obesity research.
For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...
A paper in the Feb. 2 issue of Science reports the use of new molecular technologies for unraveling the age-old mystery of the relationships between ourselves and the microbes that live in our body.