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The human body is not a single organism but a complex ecosystem where trillions of microbes compete, cooperate, and evolve in real time. From bacteria that break down sweat into odor-causing compounds ...

A drug-resistant bacterial infection has been on the rise in the U.S. in recent years, according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Shigella, a gram-negative ...

Researchers have found that a bacterium isolated from kimchi can bind to nanoplastics in the gut and carry them out of the body. The finding reframes fermented-food microbes as potential tools for ...

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Your body starts processing sugar within minutes of eating, and it usually peaks in the blood around 60 minutes, returning to baseline in two to three hours for most healthy individuals. Factors like ...

However, standard conditions do not necessarily reflect all the environments bacteria encounter in real life. In the body (and across different hosts), factors such as pH level (how acidic or alkaline ...

A view of the Salinas Valley in the Central Coast of California, where more than 400 crops are grown. (Ronald Bond / Western Center for Food Safety and Security at UC Davis) A major five-year study on ...

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