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In the past two decades, technology has allowed scientists to learn so much more about the human body and its microbiomes. These discoveries may pave the way to new therapies.
Faecal transplants alleviated nerve pain in people with diabetes, suggesting gut bacteria may play a role in causing such pain
Squash bugs need certain kinds of gut bacteria to survive, but young nymphs don’t get any from their parents – so they have to acquire them by eating other adults’ faeces
Younger patients with metastatic colorectal cancer experienced distinct patterns of adverse events and worse survival than older patients with the same type of cancer.
Vanessa C Harris and colleagues review the currently available literature to report how antibiotic use in children from low- and middle-income countries impacts the gut microbiome and, the implications for antimicrobial resistant infections.