Enlarge / University of California, Riverside scientists suspended fresh pieces of raw chicken from branches to attract carrion-feeding “vulture bees” in Costa Rica. (credit: Quinn McFrederick/UCR) Ask a random person to picture a bee, and they’ll likely conjure up the familiar black-and-yellow striped creature buzzing from flower to flower collecting pollen to bring back to the […]
Enlarge / False color image of bacteria on a human tongue. (credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/ Getty Images) An altered microbiome has been associated with—and thereby either implicitly or explicitly implicated as a partial cause of—a wide range of human maladies. These include immune disorders like celiac disease, asthma, and diabetes; obesity; cancers; psychiatric disorders like depression […]
Gut health is an enormous topic that just got even bigger. You know about probiotics: bacteria that provide benefits to our gut, metabolic, and/or overall health when eaten. Some probiotic bacteria colonize our guts—they take up residence in our digestive tract and provide lasting effects. Some probiotic bacteria are transients—they visit and impart benefits and […]
Expand / Sampling germs out of Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (1512). (charge: Guadalupe Piñar et al..) Microbiomes are {} scientific anger, in art conservation, even in which studying the parasitic species that contrasts on works of art can bring about new tactics to slow the deterioration of aging that […]
Expand (charge: Sabin et al. 2020) Among those matters archaeology always teaches us is that humankind is unusually resilient in the face of catastrophe. Another is that feces is indefinitely. Archaeologists have researched the materials of coprolites along with also the substances left behind with a town’s worth of individual waste. And based on a […]