We may think of ourselves as just human, but we’re really a mass of microorganisms housed in a human shell. Every person alive is host to about 100 trillion bacterial cells. They outnumber human cells 10 to one and account for 99.9...
Active packaging continues to move ahead, such as the emerging incorporation of non-contact antimicrobials in the package structures to suppress pathogens and prolong shelf life. News from Michigan Technological University is an innovation that has the potential to kill 100 percent of harmful microbes before...
It has been the cause of infamous international food-borne disease outbreaks and yet it is the most studied bacterium in science, an essential part of the human digestive tract, and a backbone of the biotech industry. To enhance public ...
Dr Bonnie Bassler of Princeton has done fascinating research on the ability of microbes to communicate and work together. One of America's top scientists, Bassler is at the forefront of the fast-growing field of "quorum sensing", the study of how microbes communicate with each other...
There are about 500 to 1 000 different species of bacteria in each human body. They multiply in an adult to form about 100 trillion individual cells - about ten times as many as the human cells...
Much like blood type classifications, an international research consortium has discovered there are three types of gut-microbe populations that exist independent of race, country of origin, diet, age or state of health, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The findings may...