Microorganisms seem to have found a home nearly everywhere on the planet, including the insides of animals. The skin, gastrointestinal tracts, lungs, and mouths of humans have been colonized by ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. This video shows one Corynebacterium matruchotii bacterium dividing into many daughter ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii splitting into multiple cells at once, a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria ...

Everyone loves getting kisses from a dog, but how healthy is it? Could certain diseases be transferred from a dog’s mouth to a human’s mouth? How important is doggy dental care? Is a dog’s mouth ...