The deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan ...

More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve as the stage for over 300 events in 32 sports -- including ...

Body odor from the armpits comes from bacteria metabolizing sweat produced by the apocrine glands. These bacteria are native ...

Bacteriophage therapy could be developed based on study’s results. Body odor from the armpits comes from bacteria ...

The scientific name for this phenomenon is myiasis, and it's more common than you might think. At first glance, the human bot fly (Dermatobia hominis) simply looks like a rather large fly. It's 0.6 ...

Here's a video showing the lesion and the larva if you want to be a bit grossed out: Otherwise known as Dermatobia hominis, this insect normally dwells in Central and South America, from Mexico to ...

Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF ...

The researchers analyzed the matter produced from bacterial metabolism and the DNA of the skin microflora and found an increased presence of odor-causing precursors in those 11 samples along with a ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Parasitology Vol. 11, No. 3, Mar., 1925 Observations on Rhabditis hominis Kobaya ...

Bacterial vaginosis is confined to an asymptomatic state in at least half of the cases. Symptomatic BV, on the other hand, is most typically accompanied by foul-smelling, profuse vaginal discharge ...

hominis. During in vitro experiments, this lysin was found to target only S. hominis, not other bacteria normally present on the skin. “We performed a large-scale metagenomic analysis of the ...

A research team has synthesized a lysin that during in vitro experiments targets bacteria responsible for producing odors in human armpits.