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 is focused on studying the microbes residing in five body areas: skin, mouth, nose, colon and vagina. The human microbiome makes up about one to two percent of the body mass of an adult. It ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...

Scientists at Stanford are developing a painless, topical vaccine using a common skin bacterium to trigger immunity.

This suggests a long coevolution humans have had with these organisms. Babies born via C-section don't get bathed in good birth canal bacteria, but instead attain the bacteria from the doctor's ...

Poison? What poison? Some bacteria may treat the powerful toxins bathing poison dart frog skin like a buffet. The alkaloid chemicals that poison dart frogs wield on their skin increase the variety ...

AOA are everywhere—in soil, in water, in extreme environments, on human skin—and uncovering their ... Nitrifiers—including AOA and ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB)—live by oxidizing ...

Some bacteria, like harmless Staphylococcus epidermidis, have adapted to thrive on human skin. Immunologists have often overlooked the role of skin bacteria in our health. However, recent research ...

In the end, they cultivated 101 strains from the samples, representing 747 different genera of bacteria. Many were strains ...