Wash your hands, folks, especially women. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers ...

Urbaniak hopes to keep exploring how different types of bacteria might contribute to cancer, or help ward it off. In the future, antibiotics could be used to manipulate this “breast microbiome ...

Before dieting, about 3 per cent of the gut bacteria in the obese participants was Bacteroidetes. But after dieting, the now normal-sized people had much higher levels of Bacteroidetes— close to ...

It has been estimated that between one and three per cent of an individual’s body mass is made up of different types of bacteria – that’s up to six pounds in a 200-lb. adult.

Health experts have long suspected that c-section babies might be colonized by different types of bacteria than other infants. But some gut bacteria are notoriously difficult to grow in a ...

In addition, the researchers identified another type of gut bacteria, Eubacterium coprostanoligenes, which also plays a role in lowering cholesterol.