The bacteria that are present in a person's gastrointestinal tract can reveal a lot about their health. A newly developed capsule could provide even more information, by gathering bacteria from ...

The capsule came out in the feces between 12 and 72 hours later, and the researchers already then noticed that both the gut environment and travel time through the gut varies from person to person.

Capsule shedding: New bacterial pathway that promotes invasive disease Date: February 29, 2016 Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Summary: ...

The capsule contains living bacteria engineered to sense specific molecular signs of gut troubles and, when those molecules are present, the bacteria glow.

Polysaccharide cloaks called capsules adorn bacteria to help them evade immune system detection and adapt to changing environments. 1 Pathogens like Escherichia coli produce dozens of capsular types, ...

Capsule shedding: A new bacterial pathway that promotes invasive disease Peer-Reviewed Publication. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

Dr. Irving Yall, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, was on a mission to solve the mystery behind phosphate-eating bacteria that he discovered in a Texas sewage plant. To ...

The abundance or lack of certain types of gut bacteria has been linked to everything from depression to heart disease to childhood asthma. Non-invasively determining which microbes make up a ...