Cirque du Soleil performers at the BODY WORLDS exhibit offer a unique look at the body from the outside, providing a glimpse ...

Microbe census maps out human body’s bacteria, viruses, other bugs. By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times . June 13, 2012 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. Email; Facebook; X; LinkedIn; ...

Bugs in the gut are known as gut microbes and trillions live symbiotically inside the human body. Different people can have very different populations of gut microbes living inside them.

Human body hair, such as the “peach fuzz” on our arms and faces, turns out to be quite useful. This hair has the ability to enhance the detection of parasites and can even prevent pests from ...

As organizers and participants gear up for the Fourth International Human Microbiome Congress 2013 in Hangzhou, September 13th–15th, research reports continue to document the critical role of ...

The human genome is made up of about 23,000 genes. That’s a fairly impressive figure. Until you consider this: the number of non-human genes each of us carries around — from the bacteria ...

Your body has more microbes than human cells The human body is teeming with microbes. A number that gets bandied about is that there are 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells inside you.

Many bugs found in the human gut can actually be cultured. By Megan Thielking May 4, 2016. ... What’s the big obstacle in understanding the biology of microbes in the human body?

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

Home; Health; Features Detecting bugs: Why humans have body hair. New research suggests that the nearly-invisible hairs covering the human body may help us sense the presence of bedbugs ...

What’s considered normal body temperature varies from person to person, yet overall, the average basal temperature of the human body has decreased since the 1860s for unknown reasons. A study ...