If we looked at our skin through a microscope we ... of an activity where children under supervision could put their fingerprints onto some agar jelly and watch bacteria grow.

It exists harmlessly on the skin and in nasal passages ... Staph aureus is immediately recognizable when viewed under a ...

Most cases of nocardiosis start out as lung infections, in which pus-filled cavities, or abscesses containing the bacteria, form in the lungs. This can cause symptoms such as chest pain, a cough ...

Dust can trigger skin irritation and rashes ... if you saw your domestic dirt under the microscope, you’d see that it’s a busy ecosystem. Dr Mohammed says: “Dust is a hodgepodge of all ...

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would help to heal the skin faster ... against the bacteria causing Lyme ...

Immune cells in the skin ‘cauterize’ open wounds and create ‘band-aids’ to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and foreign molecules from injury sites, finds a study 1 in mice.

If we looked at our skin through a microscope we ... of an activity where children under supervision could put their fingerprints onto some agar jelly and watch bacteria grow.