The concept of one health highlights that human health is not isolated but connected to the
health of animals, plants and environments. In this Review, we demonstrate that soils are a …

Being critical to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations,
strengthening understanding of the properties and processes of soil at national and regional …

Infectious diseases are emerging globally at an unprecedented rate while global food
demand is projected to increase sharply by 2100. Here, we synthesize the pathways by …

Microbes in the gastrointestinal tract are under selective pressure to manipulate host eating
behavior to increase their fitness, sometimes at the expense of host fitness. Microbes may do …

Humans have lived from equator to poles for millennia but are now increasingly intruding
into the wild spaces of other species and steadily extruding ourselves from our own wild …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …

Background: From old times, the human kind has used clays, externally or internally, for
maintaining body health or treating some diseases. Meanwhile there are few scientific …

We conducted direct observation of 23 caregiver–infant pairs for 130 hours and recorded
wash-related behaviors to identify pathways of fecal–oral transmission of bacteria among …

There is a growing body of literature indicating an association between stunting and
environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder thought to be caused by repeated exposures to …

Objectives Pica is the craving for and consumption of nonfood items, including the ingestion
of earth (geophagy), raw starch (amylophagy), and ice (pagophagy). Pica has long been …