Last year, as many as four million Americans consumed about $3 billion worth of probiotic supplements — living bacteria — in 2024, according to the International Probiotics Association, accounting for ...

In recent years, scientists have learned that the key beneficial infant gut bacteria Bifidobacterium infantis are disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the United States and Europe.

Fintel reports that on December 16, 2025, Wolfe Research downgraded their outlook for AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) from Outperform to Peer Perform. Analyst Price Forecast Suggests 36.11% Upside As of December ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. There are microbes living in medicine cabinets across the U.S., next to ...

AutoZone shares have crushed the S&P 500 in the past five years. The products this company sells register durable demand, making it a safe holding in any economic situation. For those investors who ...

Our expert staff answers frequently asked questions in their areas of expertise and defines common terms so you can be a smarter shopper. Read more here. As someone who writes about the best ...

The younger brother of Ken Kesey, the novelist and counterculture luminary, he turned a defunct creamery into what is now Nancy’s Probiotic Foods. By Sam Roberts In the 1960s and ’70s, the Kesey ...

AutoZone has outperformed both the consumer discretionary sector and the S&P 500 year-to-date, driven by resilient sales growth. AZO's capital allocation emphasizes aggressive share buybacks and ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a ...

In the latest close session, AutoZone (AZO) was down 1.53% at $3,968.57. This change lagged the S&P 500's 1.07% gain on the day. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 1.12%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 1.37 ...