Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Recent studies reveal that the human appendix plays roles in gut microbiota restoration and immunity, contrary to its ...

This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

The human body is teeming with trillions of symbiotic microorganisms, profoundly impacting our well-being. Within the gut, ...

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In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don't primarily affect the gastrointestinal ...

These communities of microorganisms – also known collectively as the gut flora or gastrointestinal microbiome – can either ...

In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, NUS scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human ...

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology—in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg ...

Link suspects that microbes will continue to be detected in the human brain, but judges that “the current level of evidence does not support the existence of microbes in the healthy human brain.” But, ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.