E. coli is a bacterium found in the human gut that is commonly used in research. Because the altered bacteria must rely on that replacement human enzyme to grow, their growth rate becomes a direct ...

Ultraweak biophotons largely caused by metabolic processes could play a key role in noninvasive health testing.

Many of these microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea and eukarya, were here long before humans, have evolved alongside us and now outnumber our own cells many times over. Indeed, as John ...

The human gut microbiota refers to the trillions of microbes, such as bacteria, that live in the human gut. The microbiome is the environment they live in. Most microbes in the body are useful ...

“To understand how gigantic that is for a bacterium, it is the same as if we were to find a human as tall as Mount Everest,” he told CNN Wednesday. More than 625,000 E. coli bacteria could fit ...