Let's take a closer look at that booger. It's mostly made of water, gel-like proteins that give it that gooey consistency and special immune proteins that fight off germs. Those immune proteins ...

Every breath you take is filled with dust, dirt, and germs, but the mucus in your nose ... forming the nasal classic-- the booger.

“This work expands upon a direction of research involving taste receptors and identifies mechanisms by which Staphylococcus bacteria modulate host immunity via interactions with these receptors,” says ...