Browsing: Microbial

Microbes living in and on the human body number in the tens of trillions, where they set up camp in locations as diverse as the depths of the large intestine, inside the mouth, within the urogenital tract, and even behind the ears. By the early 2000s, scientists had primarily studied the harmful effects of microbes,…

The mammalian gut teems with microbes that interact with each other dynamically to maintain the host’s health. An imbalance, or dysbiosis, in the gut microbiome is linked to diseases ranging from metabolic disorders to cancers.1However, a majority of gut microbiome dysbiosis research focuses only on identifying bacterial taxa that differ between healthy and diseased states,…