Depending on how you currently feel about the state of your oral hygiene, fluorescent images of all the tiny communities living on the human tongue may either distress or intrigue you. A study ...

Your mouth is a zoo of bacteria. And in a new series of astonishing (ly disturbing) images assembled by a team of researchers, we get to experience this diverse biome in all its psychedelic, ...

Using a recently developed fluorescent imaging technique, researchers in the United States have developed high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue. The images, presented March ...