Your gut microbiome is the trillions-strong collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in your digestive tract.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

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

They race, they leap, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for whom physical prowess is more than sport — it’s a matter ...

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

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

Each year, more than two million people die from advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD). Previous research has linked gut ...

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

Abstract: Achieving effective and efficient segmentation of human body regions in distorted images is of practical significance. Current methods rely on transformers to extract discriminative features ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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