I’m hanging out at the park while my preschooler blows bubbles or plays in the sandbox with his friends. The sun begins setting and I’m beginning to notice the prick and the itching that a...
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the US is getting a new active ingredient for sunscreen. The FDA just approved the broad spectrum UV filter, bemotrizinol, after beginning the approval process o...
A paper recently came out in Cell Host & Microbe about how the microbes in our saliva and gut – like Rothia and Staphylococcus species – can degrade peanut allergens and reduce the severity of ana...
The microbiome is one of those topics that can be studied in so many ways and in so many organisms – the questions we ask about the human microbiome can be asked about the microbiome of other or...
During pregnancy, a person’s body undergoes a lot of changes – hormone fluctuations, morning sickness, loosening joints and ligaments, and well, the obvious: growing a mini human. As a microbiol...
