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

While humans are living organisms in their own right, the human body is also a thriving ecosystem for a number of bacteria, viruses and microbes. The human microbiome plays a vital role in our ...

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

The HMP serves as a "road map" for discovering the roles these microorganisms play in human health, nutrition, immunity, and disease in diverse niches of the human body. A major goal of the HMP is the ...

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

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

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...

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 ...

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

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 ...