The bacteria that live on your skin could be playing a role in protecting you from the sun's harmful UV rays, scientists have discovered. In response to solar ultraviolet radiation, our skin cells ...

Scientists have long recognized human skin as a vibrant ecosystem that's home to millions of microorganisms. Our skin microbiome includes bacteria, fungi, and viruses; all playing a key role in ...

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 ...

The bacteria, fungi and mites living on our skin benefit from a constant supply of rich nutrients. ... Researchers may have identified a new human species that lived around 300,000 years ago in Asia.

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 ...

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 ...

But human skin is really acidic.” In those skin-like lab conditions, the team found that the M. sympodialis molecules destroy the cellular membranes and drain the cellular contents of S. aureus ...

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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 ...

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 ...