Good Bacteria

  • Declaring a Truce with Our Microbiological 'Frenemies'
    Managing bacteria and other microorganisms in the body, rather than just fighting them, may be lead to better health and a stronger immune system, according to a Penn State biologist. Researchers have historically focused on microbes in the body as primarily pathogens that ...More
    March 28, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Good Bacteria May Expunge Vancomycin-Resistant Bacteria from the Gut
    Too many antibiotics can decimate the normal intestinal microbiota, which may never recover its former diversity. That, in turn, renders the GI tract vulnerable to being colonized by pathogens. Now researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and ...More
    February 27, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Can Probiotics Decontaminate the Gut?
    Heavy metals and other toxins frequently contaminate food and water. The culprits read like a litany of bad actors—lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, chromium—but their numbers run into the thousands. Microbes have long been enlisted for bioremediation, but they also have the ...More
    September 20, 2012
    Posted in News
  • NIH Team Describes Protective Role of Skin Microbiota
    A research team at the National Institutes of Health has found that bacteria that normally live in the skin may help protect the body from infection. As the largest organ of the body, the skin represents a major site of interaction with microbes in the environment. Although ...More
    July 26, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Beneficial Bacteria May Help Ward Off Infection
    While many bacteria exist as aggressive pathogens, causing diseases ranging from tuberculosis and cholera, to plague, diphtheria and toxic shock syndrome, others play a less malevolent role and some are critical for human health. ...More
    July 20, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Smoking Causes the Body to Turn Against its Own Beneficial Bacteria
    According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease. Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. New ...More
    February 16, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Eradicating Dangerous Bacteria May Cause Permanent Harm
    In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of microbiology and chair of the Department of Medicine at NYU ...More
    August 24, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Stress Wrecks Intestinal Bacteria, Could Keep Immune System on Idle
    Stress not only sends the human immune system into overdrive – it can also wreak havoc on the trillions of bacteria that work and thrive inside our digestive system. New research suggests that this may be important because those bacteria play a significant role in ...More
    April 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Gut Bacteria Can Control Organ Functions
    Bacteria in the human gut may not just be helping digest food but also could be exerting some level of control over the metabolic functions of other organs, like the liver, according to research published this week in the online journal mBio®. These findings offer new ...More
    March 1, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Are Depressed People Too Clean?
    In an effort to pinpoint potential triggers leading to inflammatory responses that eventually contribute to depression, researchers are taking a close look at the immune system of people living in today's cleaner modern society. Rates of depression in younger people have ...More
    December 8, 2010
    Posted in News
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