Scientists at Stanford are developing a painless, topical vaccine using a common skin bacterium to trigger immunity.

Staphylococcus epidermidis exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to long-term colonization. The microbial surface components recognizing ...

aureus while sparing commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis with Artilysins, and, thus, rebalance the natural human skin microbiome,” Matuschka de Greiffenclau explained. The approach seems to be ...

Recent research has begun to document how skin commensals interact with one another, with pathogenic microbes, and with human cells. Staphylococcus epidermidis secrete antimicrobial substances that ...

The wound is the dark hole in the middle of the image (1). The immune cells are blue (2), and a kind of common skin bacterium called Staphylococcus epidermidis is shown in green (3). The white and red ...

The question of what and why has since set him on a scientific mission to understand how the population of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that colonize human skin—known as the skin microbiome— can ...

And the scalp microbiome is unique, populated by two key types of bacteria: Cutibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus ...

Cranberry beverage consumption altered the skin microbiome at the species and strain levels, with notable effects observed on the abundance of Rothia mucilaginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis ...