A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

Christopher J. Damman consults for BCD Biosciences and Supergut. Tae Seok Moon is affiliated with the Engineering Biology Research Consortium. The human body is a complex organism, made up of ...

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

Bacteria uses multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria, that causes colitis, disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as ...

Over the past 150 years, researchers have seen the average human body temperature drop by more than half a degree Fahrenheit (-0.3 °C). In a new study from the University of Michigan, scientists ...

Over 100 million nerve cells line the digestive tract. Have you ever felt “butterflies in your stomach,” or made a “gut decision”? That might have been your “second brain” — otherwise known as your ...

In the last decade, an increasing number of studies have been conducted to establish the relationship between gut microbiome composition and body weight. A recent systemic review published in ...

Body odor develops when sweat mixes with bacteria on your skin. Apocrine glands are the glands most closely associated with body odor. Regularly showering and wearing deodorant can decrease your body ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the so-called “forever chemicals”—have long been known to accumulate in the human body, raising alarms due to links with decreased fertility, cardiovascular ...

“We have known [for a long time] that the liver will regenerate after injury,” biologist Udayan Apte, associate director of the University of Kansas Liver Center, tells Inverse. “We know now [from ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers adapt a strain of human body lice to a membrane feeder to study its infection dynamics with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of ...