That impression was altered when the Human Microbiome Project, launched by the National Institutes of Health in 2007, revealed that we share our body with an astounding number of bacteria ...

When suppressing the peptide-producing abilities of these proteasomes, scientist found that bacterial infections flourished ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...

By the time I finish reading this sentence, 20 million new cells have just been replaced in your body. 20 million ... In fact, a healthy human could lose 65% of their liver and ultimately be ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have discovered a host protein that uses tiny tweezer-like machines to kill germs before they harm the human body. The study to discover ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes, and as many as 37 trillion cells. And while death is often thought of as the end of the ...

The human immune system is highly complex and well-equipped to combat most bacteria. However, in some instances bacteria can cause life-threatening infections and the increase of antibiotic-resistant ...

But let's break that down. By the time I finish reading this sentence, 20 million new cells have just been replaced in your body. 20 million, in just a few seconds. Compound that over a lifetime ...