The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria. The composition of the community of bacteria—called the "skin ...

After screening more than 100 skin-derived bacteria, the team identified C. tuberculostearicum as a producer of a potent ...

Your skin is crawling with hundreds of kinds of bacteria, NIH researchers find. There are up to 100 times more kinds of bacteria thriving in "vibrant communities" in healthy skin than previously ...

Using bacterial DNA analysis, the scientists sampled bacteria found on healthy human skin at 20 different spots on the body. Click to see the different kinds they found. Julie Segre hide caption ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

The bacteria and chemicals found on human skin have been sampled and mapped across the body in a series of 3-D images. Pictured, an artistic representation depicts how the location and intensity ...

Human skin is covered by a wide variety of bacteria, viruses, fungi and mites, says Elizabeth Grice, a genomics researcher at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.

The skin of the human body is home to a far more numerous and diverse community of bacteria than previously thought. There are 100 times more bacterial species living on the skin than estimated, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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