The research is published in the journal Nature. The human body has co-evolved with the beneficial microbes that live in the gut (termed the microbiota), resulting in mutually favorable ...

Human skin, the barrier between the body and the outside world ... has begun to document how skin commensals interact with one another, with pathogenic microbes, and with human cells. Staphylococcus ...

advances in genetic technology have opened a window into the amazingly populous and powerful world of microbial life in and around the human body—the normal community of bacteria, fungi and ...

The human body has several distinct microbiomes—on the skin, in the mouth and in our airways—but the most consequential one for health is probably in the digestive system, commonly called the gut ...

The immune system is highly trained to detect and eliminate any potential threat to the human body. While years of evolution have turned this system into a pathogen-killing machine, the microbes it ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes, and as many as 37 trillion cells. And while death is often thought of as the end of the ...

The HMP is focused on studying the microbes residing in five body areas: skin, mouth, nose, colon and vagina. The human microbiome makes up about one to two percent of the body mass of an adult. It ...

The microbes in the human gut perform many important roles, and there are many beneficial, helpful microorganisms in the ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

A collaborative research team from Kyoto University, Noster Inc., and others, has uncovered a key mechanism by which the gut bacterium Streptococcus salivarius helps prevent obesity linked to ...