Dear Doctors: I saw where a doctor wrote a book about what happened to his skin when he stopped bathing for a few years. He said our skin has a microbiome, and he wanted to learn more about it. Is ...

The skin microbiome plays a key role in skin health and disease. While imbalances in skin microbiome composition are linked to disease, studying it has been challenging due to limited methods for ...

SAN DIEGO — Although it has been known for several years that more than 1000 species of bacteria from 19 different phyla inhabit the human skin — mainly the superficial epidermis and upper parts of ...

Items that we touch or use on our skin every day could affect our health by changing our skin microbiome and making us more or less susceptible to chronic diseases. What exactly a healthy skin ...

Years of chronic exposure of human skin to sunlight strongly disrupts its body‑clock rhythm, according to a pioneering study ...

The human body plays host to many microbes, and the communities that these microorganisms form are known as microbiomes. There are some fungi, or yeast that are normal parts of the skin microbiome.

The gold-standard synthetic repellent, N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), protects against mosquitoes for just four to eight hours. More lasting protection would be invaluable. Not only would it save us ...

With anticipated growth over 15%, the human microbiome market represents a huge commercial opportunity for suppliers, brands ...

Researchers developed the TUS Skin Bacteria Co-culture (TSBC) medium, a novel system that enables the balanced cultivation of multiple skin bacteria. This breakthrough allows for a more detailed study ...