Human skin, the barrier between the body and the outside world, is home to diverse microorganisms, some of which can promote immunity or fight invaders. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, ...

Genomic sequencing has revealed that individual strains of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Candida auris fungi reside on human skin and can be commonly transmitted between ...

Learn how the excessive cleanliness of the International Space Station poses health problems for astronauts and why scientists are looking to microbes for solutions.

The commensal bacteria or microbiota on our skin is thought to contribute to host health, protecting the host against a range of infections, including wound healing and anti-cancer properties. In this ...

A strain of Staphylococcus epidermis found on human skin contains a chemical with cancer-fighting ... While Gallo and his colleagues were examining the antimicrobial properties of skin bacteria, they ...

The HMP is focused on studying the microbes residing in five body areas: skin, mouth, nose, colon and vagina. The human microbiome makes up about one to two percent of the body mass of an adult. It ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...

Some bacteria, like harmless Staphylococcus epidermidis, have adapted to thrive on human skin. Immunologists have often overlooked the role of skin bacteria in our health. However, recent research ...

This suggests a long coevolution humans have had with these organisms. Babies born via C-section don't get bathed in good birth canal bacteria, but instead attain the bacteria from the doctor's ...