For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

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Trillions of microbes live inside us. Many are helpful; others, not so much. Over the last 15 years MIT has played a central ...

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.

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The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

With over half the cells in the human body being bacterial rather than human, and over 99% of the genes in the human body ...

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“They’re in a partnership.” In the human body, for example, phages typically don’t exterminate their host bacteria. And bacteria may benefit from their friendly relationships with ...

These communities of microorganisms -- also known collectively ... The GMoC system provides a realistic in vitro (outside the body) model of the human gut, featuring a 3D version of the gut ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. "We know there are many symbionts in the world ...