Group B strep is a type of bacteria that many healthy people carry in their bodies: it naturally exists in the gut and lower ...

and disease in diverse niches of the human body. A major goal of the HMP is the metagenomic characterization of microbial communities from 300 healthy individuals over time. The HMP is focused on ...

The human microbiome, or microbiota, is defined as the collection of microbes - bacteria, viruses, and single-cell eukaryotes - that inhabits the human body. Microbes in a healthy human adult are ...

The decay and decomposition of a human body may be unpleasant to consider, but it can be crucial in criminal justice. Rupali ...

In a recent discussion, experts in the field of human microbiomes highlighted the significance of measuring both bacteria and viruses in the gut. They also explored the under-researched domain of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human body has several distinct microbiomes—on the skin, in the mouth and in our airways—but the most consequential one for health is probably in the digestive system, commonly called the gut ...

Inside the human body, the immune system is confronted with a similar threat from microbial tricksters that seek to breach the body’s defenses to perpetuate their own survival. To move stealthily ...

The human body has co-evolved with the beneficial microbes that live in the gut (termed the microbiota), resulting in ...

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 ...