Despite the wealth of scientific research on the health-promoting values of nature in space,
incorporating indoor plants in the design of healthcare facilities has significant challenges …

Background Increasing numbers of epidemiological studies are investigating the association
between outdoor greenery and various health outcomes. However, in the case of indoor …

Contact with environmental microbial communities primes the human immune system.
Factors determining the distribution of microorganisms, such as dispersal, are thus important …

Over the past decade, hundreds of studies have characterized the microbial communities
found in human-associated built environments (BEs). These have focused primarily on how …

In order to expand the research on a combination of functional microcapsules and water-
based coatings, antibacterial microcapsules using 3.0% sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate …

Migrants traveling from plains to Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China, with an average altitude of
over 4500 m, may suffer serious respiratory function deterioration. Regulating the respiratory …

According to the hygiene and biodiversity hypotheses, frequent exposure to environmental
microbiota, especially through soil contact, diversifies commensal microbiota, enhances …

Indoor residents are constantly exposed to dynamic microbiota that have significant health
effects. In addition to hand hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection, antimicrobial coatings …

Urbanizing global populations spend over 90% of their time indoors where microbiome
abundance and diversity are low. Chronic exposure to microbiomes with low abundance …

Plant richness and microbiota have been associated with plant health; hardly any studies
have investigated how plant taxa differs in microbiota in the context of human health. We …