With each breath, a human may inhale thousands of harmful microbes into the lungs. Mucus, the gel-like moist substance ...

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered ...

Doctors specializing in multiple areas of ear care explain how to maintain optimal ear health without overdoing it. The post ...

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Cave fish develop taste buds on their head and below their chin—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected ...

The discovery has implications for human health, since the microbes included some that were still viable, some that could be ...

More than a dozen bacterial species among the hundreds that live in people's mouths have been linked to a collective 50% increased chance of developing head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), a ...

Scientists are increasingly discovering new ways that our microbiome – the community of bacteria ... we look human, because there are so many microbes living in our body, 99 per cent of the ...

Researchers have found that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are fatter and shorter than their antibiotic-sensitive parental strains, and that these morphological changes correlate with changes in the ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered a new bacterium that weakens the immune system in the gut, potentially ...

Wild forward Matt Boldy is week-to-week with a lower-body injury and might not be ready for Minnesota's Oct. 10 season opener against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets. Boldy, 23, is coming off a ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...