After you die, bacteria harvest your body for the nutrients that help push daisies. Matriyoshka/iStock via Getty Images Plus Each human body contains a complex community of trillions of microorganisms ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

After you die, bacteria harvest your body for the nutrients that help push daisies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Each human ...

Your body is home to 10 times as many microbes as its own cells. But they can be quite picky about where they will settle – and what other bacteria they’ll share fences with. That’s the conclusion of ...

Beneficial gut microbes and the body work together to fine-tune fat metabolism and cholesterol levels, according to a new preclinical study by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Boyce ...

Researchers at Insilixa, a healthcare startup based in Sunnyvale, Calif., created a biochip that is able to complete microbial scans in two hours without the need for cultures, according to Science.

Newly discovered mechanism by which oral bacteria affect gut health coincides with worsening liver health in patients with ...