Human Microbiome

  • Study Looks at Microbial Differences Between Parents, Kids and Dogs
    As much as dog owners love their children, they tend to share more of themselves, at least in terms of bacteria, with their canine cohorts rather than their kids. That is just one finding of a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder that looked at the types and ...More
    April 17, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Human Microbe Study Provides Insight Into Health, Disease
    Microbes from the human mouth are telling Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists something about periodontitis and more after they cracked the genetic code of bacteria linked to the condition. The finding, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...More
    March 18, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Study How Skin Microbiome is Transmitted Between People
    The human skin is home to countless microorganisms that we can't see, but these microbes help define who we are. Our invisible passengers – known as the skin microbiome - contribute to our health in numerous ways including educating our immune system, protecting us from ...More
    March 13, 2013
    Posted in News
  • New Research Reports First Results of Effort to Understand the Human Microbiome
    Earth Day may be more than a month away, but another, more personal, ecosystem has been shown to also be worth protecting—within our bodies are communities of microbes that affect the behavior of human cells hosting them. These communities, called the "microbiome," is so ...More
    February 28, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Study Says Bacterial Ecology Living on Humans Has Changed in the Last Century
    A University of Oklahoma-led study has demonstrated that ancient DNA can be used to understand ancient human microbiomes. The microbiomes from ancient people have broad reaching implications for understanding recent changes to human health, such as what good bacteria might ...More
    December 13, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Gut Bacteria's Collection of Genomes is Unique, Remains Stable Over Time
    We all have E. coli bacteria in our gut but each of us carries a version that is genetically slightly different. The same can be said of most gut microbes: our own gut metagenome, that is the sum of all the genomes of all our gut microbes, appears to be really specific to ...More
    December 6, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Sinusitis Linked to Microbial Diversity
    A common bacteria ever-present on the human skin and previously considered harmless, may, in fact, be the culprit behind chronic sinusitis, a painful, recurring swelling of the sinuses that strikes more than 1 in 10 Americans each year, according to a study by scientists at ...More
    September 12, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Census of Microbes in Healthy Humans is Reported
    Trillions of microbes inhabit the human body, occupying virtually every nook and cranny. And most of the time, this relationship is a friendly one, with microbes helping to digest food, strengthen the immune system and ward off dangerous pathogens. But despite their ...More
    June 13, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Report Details Efforts to Improve, Advance Indoor Microbial Sampling
    Humans spend greater than 90 percent of their time indoors, but we're never alone there. Bacteria and viruses, scientists estimate, make up half of the world's biomass—some 10 nonillion (1 followed by 31 zeros) microorganisms—and we most often meet them within enclosed ...More
    May 30, 2012
    Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
  • 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
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