Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don't primarily affect the gastrointestinal ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.

Recent biotechnology allows the "re-shuffling" of genes to make proteins unknown in nature—and of potential use in battling germs ... would stimulate the human body into superimmunity against ...

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 ...

Bacteria can turn bile acids into forms that strongly activate FXR, signaling the body to slow down bile production ... Importantly, BA-MCYs were also detected in human blood samples, indicating ...

and not every body site contained members of all the major groups, or phyla, of bacteria known to colonize the human body. Rather, specific groups of microorganisms colonize distinct anatomical niches ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the ...

And our hands? They're like one big freeway, moving germs toll-free from location to location outside and inside your body. But when you wash your hands, you create a major roadblock, stopping the ...