A new study finds that people whose gut microbiomes produce a lot of methane are able to unlock extra energy from a ...

Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, ...

Microbial carotenoids offer faster production, health benefits and potential applications in foods, animal feed and cosmetics ...

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A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The human body is extraordinarily complex, with several openings and a few exits. But exactly how many holes does each person have? It sounds like a simple enough question to answer — list the ...

Police say a Pennsylvania man who had about 100 sets of human remains is charged with stealing from a graveyard at the edge ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Neighbors react after Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, was found to have skulls, corpses and body parts stored in his basement ...