The human mouth can harbor more than 700 different species of bacteria. Under normal circumstances these microbes co-exist with us as part of our resident oral microbiota. But when bacteria spread ...

This microscopic, caterpillar-shaped bacteria may be slithering around INSIDE your mouth because it seems to have evolved its shape in order to fit there, study reveals ...

The human mouth is one of the most densely packed bacterial hot-spots anyone’s ever studied, so my colleagues and I scraped the tongues of 21 volunteers and placed the gunk onto microscope slides.

The human mouth is teeming with many different organisms, over 700 species in fact. Some are beneficial, while others may be associated with conditions such as migraines. The human body is a great ...

If the same is true of the oral bacteria linked to Crohn’s disease, it could suggest that bacterial overgrowth and inflammation in the mouth is a possible root cause of Crohn’s. Other diseases ...

It is still known as one of the most important staining techniques used in microbiology to identify bacteria under a microscope. Gram first dripped reagents, a substance designed to cause a ...