This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

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

This interplay highlights how gut microbes interact with the host body in a dynamic, give-and-take relationship." Importantly, BA-MCYs were also detected in human blood samples, indicating that ...

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

The human body has co-evolved with the beneficial microbes that live in the gut (termed the microbiota), resulting in mutually favorable relationships that aid in the digestion of food and ...

A new study reveals that close social contacts, such as friends, influence the composition of the microbiota — the community ...

The research team examined one type of obelisk that had colonized bacteria found on human tooth enamel: Streptococcus sanguinis. Many, but not all the S. sanguinis bacteria contained RNA that was part ...

Now a new Northwestern University study points to the role of gut microbes. From Anatomy of the Human Body. Image by Henry Vandyke Carter. Creative Commons 3.0. In a controlled lab experiment ...

An international team of scientists is helping to identify how vaginal microbiomes vary across cultures and continents.

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

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 ...

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 ...