The price of a kiss. Every time we kiss with passion, we massively transfer a large number of microorganisms to our partner and she to us. This has been the conclusion of the latest study carried out by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and published in the journal Microbione.
A team of scientists from the EURAC Institute in Bolzano (Italy), as well as several researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria) have discovered non-human DNA in the sample of hip bone that was extracted from the 5,300-year-old mummy found on a glacier in the Alps and named Otzi, the Iceman.
In any microbiology laboratory in the world we can find small transparent circular boxes made up of two pieces known as Petri dishes. Its name comes from a scientist who, thanks to this great idea, has allowed thousands of scientists to grow fungi, bacteria and all kinds of microorganisms under controlled conditions.
The surface of our body contains a multitude of ideal environments for the growth of various species of microorganisms that play a fundamental role in our health. Now, a team of scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute (USA) has drawn up the first map of the fungi that inhabit our skin.
A Danish study based on a storm that fell in May 2009 reveals that rain-laden clouds are also teeming with bacteria and chemicals, specifically up to 3,000 different compounds commonly found in the ground.
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University (USA) has concluded that there are 2,368 different types of bacteria in the human navel, according to a genetic analysis published in the journal PLOS One. the first results of the Project "Biodiversity of the navel", dedicated to an area of the body that, according to the researchers, is "the portal through which we connect to our mothers, and the physical reminder of our evolutionary past".
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
