Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don't primarily affect the gastrointestinal ...

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...

Often biologists study life at many different levels (think cells, tissues, organs, body systems, etc.) across many different organisms like plants, animals, and bacteria. Human biology specifically ...

Bacteria can turn bile acids into forms that strongly activate FXR, signaling the body to slow down bile production ... Importantly, BA-MCYs were also detected in human blood samples, indicating ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers are helping to map the landscape of viruses that infect us all, and to analyze the impact they have on human health and disease.

Decomposers – mainly bacteria and fungi – are trying ... This kind of research unfolds at 'body farms' (aka human ...

Organisms can only function if their internal ... Sample exam questions - the human body - staying alive Understanding how to approach exam questions helps to boost exam performance.

The current convention of describing (defining) organisms ... with human-curated taxonomic identification. So what's the catch? Of course, other bacterial biomes are far greater than our body ...

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 ...