New discovery reveals an entire new world smaller than viruses and bacteria.

Vampires don't only haunt the pages of classic novels and spook us in horror movies — they're also lurking inside the human ...

A research team led by Dr Ivan Zheludev from Stanford University has found evidence of what they call "alien life" living inside the human body ... contains billions of bacteria, viruses, and ...

A new study reveals that close social contacts, such as friends, influence the composition of the microbiota — the community ...

The human microbiome makes up about one to two percent of the body mass of an adult. It has been likened to a body organ. But, unlike say a heart or a liver, the importance and function of the ...

and break it down into something your body recognizes as nutrients (which look nothing at all like lettuce). Not all bacteria inside you are good. Some are harmful, like the bacteria below that ...

A recent study explores one fascinating aspect of this partnership: how gut bacteria ... host body in a dynamic, give-and-take relationship." Importantly, BA-MCYs were also detected in human ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the ...

So that might be one mystery solved, but lint isn't the only thing inside these bizarre ... researchers also discovered other bacteria never before seen on human skin, like marimonas, which ...

Amazingly, the human gut contains around 1,000 different ... How much does the bacteria inside my body weigh? Adam has his inner microbes examined to find out what's lurking inside his guts.