Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial ...

It's a unique approach to tackling the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. With the global threat of drug-resistant infections, fungi inhabiting human skin are an untapped resource ...

Malassezia is a yeast that is often found on human skin, and it can take up fats from the skin to generate fatty acids. These hydroxy fatty acids, which are made from lipids on human skin, have ...

Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion individual microbes living on their skin, according to a 2015 peer-reviewed study and the U.S ...

Researchers on a safari for microbes have found that human skin is populated by a veritable menagerie of bacteria -- 182 species -- some apparently living there permanently and others just ...

To heal skin, scientists invent living bioelectronics. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240612140815.htm ...

As it turns out, living human skin cells are readily available for purchase, ... the researchers used a special growth media supplemented with some antibiotics to keep bacteria at bay.

The alkaloid chemicals that poison dart frogs wield on their skin increase the variety of microbial species living there, researchers report December 4 in Current Biology. Some of those microbes ...

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 ...

Reaserchers have created a prototype for what they call 'living bioelectronics': a combination of living cells, gel, and electronics that can integrate with living tissue. Tests in mice ...