The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria. The composition of the community of bacteria—called the "skin ...

Vibrio vulnificus can cause necrotizing fasciitis that kills human tissue, including the skin and outer layer surrounding muscles, nerves, fat, blood vessels and organs. Calling it “flesh-eating ...

What bacteria in South Carolina ocean water cause beach closures? Here's what to know about water safety this summer.

The human body plays host to many microbes, and the communities that these microorganisms form are known as microbiomes. There are some fungi, or yeast that are normal parts of the skin ...

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

Going into the water in and around Delaware can provide some risks. While people are aware of the sharks in the Atlantic ...

On the skin, millions of microbial colonists quietly coexist with their host as microscopic allies that help maintain health ...

Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz’s research aims to develop something artificial with the same properties as what developed over ...