Study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 15:03
in Biology & Nature
It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms—and they're not just bacteria. A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.