But they didn’t. The African green monkey, it turns out, has a protective mechanism in its gut that the researchers think is responsible for thwarting deadly disease. In a previous study ...

In the study, detailed in the journal Microbial Genomics, the researchers implanted gut microbes from one of three animals into mice: two large-brained primates—humans and squirrel monkeys—and ...

The community of microbes that live in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, may have fueled the evolution of humans' huge ...

XINING -- A new study has uncovered the substantial impact of altitude on the gut microbiota of the plateau pika, a small mammal, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west of China, helping to ...