The human body plays host to many microbes, and the communities that these microorganisms form are known as microbiomes... | ...

Learn more about Malassezia, a type of fungi that's found on human skin, which could help humans fight off ...

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent ...

But human skin is really acidic.” Humans play host to a colossal array of microorganisms, known as the microbiome, but we know little about our resident fungi and their contributions to human health, ...

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 ...

The human microbiome is an entire ecosystem of microscopic organisms that live on our skin and inside our body. These microbes are integrated into our immune, digestive, and nervous systems, and are ...

Trillions of gut microbiomes are inside us right now – and until a few years ago, people knew little about them. In just a ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...