Human skin, the barrier between the body and the outside world, is home to diverse microorganisms, some of which can promote immunity or fight invaders. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, ...

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 ...

The human body is teeming with microbes—trillions of them. The commensal bacteria and fungi that live on and inside us outnumber our own cells 10-to-1, and the viruses that teem inside those cells and ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

advances in genetic technology have opened a window into the amazingly populous and powerful world of microbial life in and around the human body—the normal community of bacteria, fungi and ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes, and as many as 37 trillion cells. And while death is often thought of as the end of the ...

The research is published in the journal Nature. The human body has co-evolved with the beneficial microbes that live in the ...

That microbiome is also directly connected to the brain by the so-called gut-brain axis, and microbes in the human gut can generate molecules that impact the human body, such as some neurotransmitters ...

Another concern is the potential to engineer a microorganism that releases harmful biochemicals within the human body. Other possible risks include alterations to the human host, such as modifications ...

Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine (known as the gut microbiota) can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking ...