Parents and other caregivers whose children have a teddy bear or other plush toys have been given a grim statistic about the ...

An entrepreneur launched a plushie that purrs, targeting millennials and Gen Zers. Plushie sales are booming among adults who find comfort in the things they enjoyed as kids. Research shows cat ...

"Giraffiti flew with me on my one and only flight to the International Space Station," said Wiseman, holding up a plush toy giraffe. "He still has a little bit of stitching on his neck so that he ...

There's nothing quite like a cute Pokémon plush to bring a smile to the face, is there? Well, this new range arriving in Japan's Pokémon Centers next week might just be the cutest of the bunch ...

The life that flourishes down there is also downright alien. A new study has recovered a plethora of never-before-seen microbes from areas of the ocean floor that include the Mariana Trench. Analyzing ...

Round suggests that understanding how the microbiome impacts metabolism could potentially lead to microbe-based treatments to prevent type 1 diabetes. “What I hope will eventually happen is that ...

Early-life gut microbes may protect against diabetes, research in mice suggests Date: March 6, 2025 Source: University of Utah Health Summary: The microbiome shapes development of insulin ...

Their results suggest that more microbes could help improve human health in space. The study was led by Rodolfo A. Salido and Haoqi Nina Zhao, a bioengineer and an environmental analytical chemist at ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions.

“Even though commercially available kits are optimized, DNA extraction efficiency is very different depending on the microbes,” Manrique says, “and the results provided by different kits are ...