Until now, options for removing PFAS chemicals from the human body have been limited to bloodletting or cholesterol ...

Research shows gut microbiome could help eliminate persistent PFAS that linger in bodies for years, as scientists work to ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

After five years of toil, a consortium of several hundred U.S. researchers has released a detailed census of the myriad bacteria, yeasts, viruses and amoebas that live, eat, excrete, reproduce and ...

You may think of yourself as human, but 90 percent of the cells in your body are actually bacterial. That’s 100 trillion microbes living on your skin, in your gut, up your nostril—any body ...

Regardless of whether you are more like Pig-Pen or Little Miss Tidy, all humans carry around several pounds of living bacteria and related ilk on and in their bodies.

Microbes have evolved over millions of years to live in and on all parts of the human body. Scientists have created new ways to reconstruct how this evolution unfolded, using mathematical tools ...

Bacteria, working together as a community, can manage this digestion. We get some of the calories they don’t chomp. Not that calories are necessarily something we lack.

The human body contains 20 times more microbes than it does cells. In fact, a visitor from outer space might think the human race is just one big chain of microbe hotels.

Microbes in the human body swap genes, even across tissue boundaries, study indicates. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 04 / 190411083813.htm ...

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 ...

April 11 (UPI) --Microbes in the human body are swapping genes with one another, according to a new study. Some bacteria genes can even travel across tissue barriers without their microbial hosts.