From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...

There are roughly 30,000 different species of bacteria. Some can harm human health, while others can be helpful. Those that ...

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

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

And Datta says the work is also important in the context of biofilms, groupings of bacteria that grow an encapsulating polymer matrix of their own. There are biofilms in the human body ...