Bacteria

Although it is periodically subjected to "beauty treatments", the Taj Mahal, one of the most admired and photographed monuments in the world, always ends up taking on an unflattering brown hue.

Antibodies or immunoglobulins are defense proteins secreted by B lymphocytes as part of the immune response. Your mission is to find a specific infectious agent, join it, and mark it for later elimination.

They teach our body to defend itself against viruses, bacteria and other foreign agents, and they are especially important in people in risk groups.

These dental hygiene products change the pH of saliva, making it more acidic, which can damage teeth. They also reduce microbial diversity.

They have versions of Ebola, the Spanish flu or the human papilloma virus, but they have not yet commercialized a model with the coronavirus.

There is a class of probiotics capable of producing and releasing neuroactive substances and that, therefore, would be effective in improving the symptoms of disorders such as autism.

Should babies delivered by cesarean section receive a smear of germs from the mother's vagina on their mouth, nose, or skin soon after birth? This controversial trend about pregnancy is known as "vaginal seeding" or "micropartum" and the idea is that babies have more defenses against disease.

If we believed that there was nothing else that could surprise us about this "smart substance" that is breast milk, research on its composition continues to amaze us in terms of its enormous benefits. And that we still do not know all of them.