Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

The human body contains about 100 trillion cells, but only maybe one in 10 of those cells is actually human. The rest are from bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms. Now, scientists have ...

Research shows gut microbiome could help eliminate persistent PFAS that linger in bodies for years, as scientists work to ...

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

Bacteria are all around us. They live on and inside of our bodies, and those microbes are able to easily share genes with one another in a process called horizontal gene transfer. Researchers have ...

Microbe census maps out human body’s bacteria, viruses, other bugs. By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times . June 13, 2012 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. Email; Facebook; X; ...

The human micro-biome is host to trillions of bacteria. Most are beneficial, and some manipulate our impulses, appetites and decisions. There are trillions of bacteria in your body right now | KSL.com ...

You may think of yourself as human, but 90 percent of the cells in your body are actually bacterial. That’s 100 trillion microbes living on your skin, in your gut, up your nostril—any body ...

Difficult-to-measure amounts of microbes and cells. In 1972, biochemist . Thomas Luckey. estimated that each gram of human feces contained one hundred billion bacteria, and that the digestive ...

EVEN ODDS In the human body, bacteria (such as Enterococcus bacteria, shown) were once thought to outnumber human cells by 10-to-1. New calculations show roughly equal numbers of each.