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

Bacteria exposed to microplastics can become resistant to antibiotics, a new study has found. Researchers from the US ...

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.

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

How nurturing your gut health can dramatically improve your overall health based on recent scientific advances and practical ...

“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 ...

In the complex ecosystem of the human body, yeast exists as a quiet inhabitant, typically harmless but capable of causing ...

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 ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, holds promise as a new treatment for C. difficile, a notoriously difficult-to-treat bacterial infection, according to a team of researchers. The ...

Israeli researchers have discovered a surprising immune defense role of the proteasome, a cellular structure known for ...