Sentences with phrase «human microbiome project»

doi: 10.1038 / nrmicro2537 The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012).

This test is based on extensive research from the NIH Human Microbiome project.

Lactobacillus and Bifidobacter species do meet the first requirement according to the new probiotic criteria defined by research from the Human Microbiome Project that is run by the National Institutes for Health.

As we all know from the Human Microbiome Project, recent research on the microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract has generated great interest in their connections with overall health.

«The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was launched by NIH in 2007 to characterize the microbes found in different regions of the body....

The Human Microbiome Project has provided a better understanding of the trillions of microbes living in our bodies.

For example, the Human Microbiome Project is something I have only just discovered but am extremely excited about, particularly because it's primary purpose is reestablishing a healthy mental and physical relationship with bacteria, and coming back into balance with nature, one of the Kombucha Kamp mantras.

The NIH Common Fund Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was established with the mission of generating research resources enabling comprehensive characterization of the human microbiota and analysis of their role in human health and disease.

The Human Microbiome Project is currently analyzing the genome of microbes from five places on the human body: nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract and urogenital tract.

08:00 — The role of healthy bacteria in the body and the Human Microbiome Project.

Science (the Human Microbiome Project) is showing that our BACTERIA are just as important as our Hormones when it comes to our weight.

The National Institutes of Health's «Human Microbiome Project» was billed as a «road map» of human microbes.

First, I've been studying the skin microbiome quite a bit lately, and, as a matter of fact, just a couple months ago sent my stool, skin and mouth microbiome samples off to the Human Microbiome Project to get analyzed.

Shows you how your bacterial strains and levels compare to the National Institutes of Health's Human Microbiome Project data on gut bacterial strains

The Human Microbiome Project has spent millions of dollars to catalog «microbiome communities» in people with different diseases.

In addition, I am managing a number of metagenomic projects, including the second phase of the Human Microbiome Project.

New findings from the Human Microbiome Project suggests there is no single healthy microbiome.

In a series of coordinated scientific reports, some 200 members of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium from nearly 80 research institutions used advanced DNA - sequencing techniques to identify the thousands of microorganisms that live on humans.

Since 2005, at least eight programs have been established to study the human microbiome, including the US Human Microbiome Project, the Canadian Microbiome Initiative, MetaHIT (EU and China) and the Human Metagenome Consortium in Japan.

To better understand these interactions, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the official launch of the Human Microbiome Project.

«The Human Microbiome Project will help us better understand the microbial environment in the gut, as well as provide us with the tools and technology to expand our exploration into this field of research.»

«Microbes play a significant role in the health of the digestive tract and many digestive diseases result when the microbial environment is out of balance,» said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.

The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

NIH recently awarded $ 8.2 million to four sequencing centers, to start building a framework and data resources for the Human Microbiome Project.

«The recent emergence of faster and cost - effective sequencing technologies promises to provide an unprecedented amount of information about these microbial communities, which in turn will bolster the development and refinement of analytical tools and strategies,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.

The Human Microbiome Project offers an opportunity to transform our understanding of the relationships between microbes and humans in health and disease,» said Dr. Alan Krensky, the director of the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI), which oversees the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.

Additional information about the Human Microbiome Project is available at www.nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp.

Also following on the lead of those efforts, the Human Microbiome Project will monitor and support research on the ethical, legal and social implications of the research.

«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Group.

Part of the NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research, the Human Microbiome Project will award a total of $ 115 million to researchers over the next five years.

For instance, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)(Turnbaugh et al, 2007; Peterson et al, 2009; Huttenhower et al, 2012) and MetaHIT (Qin et al, 2010) have generated maps of bacterial species abundances throughout the human body, reference genomes, and catalogs of more than 100 million microbial genes assembled from shotgun sequencing of in vivo communities.

Skin microbial communities have been shown to mediate skin disorders, provide protection from pathogens, and regulate our immune system (Costello et al., 2009; Grice & Segre, 2011; Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

These include the US Human Microbiome Project, the Canadian Microbiome Initiative, MetaHIT (involving the European Union and China) and the Human Metagenome Consortium in Japan.

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

The Human Microbiome Project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, has now used next - generation DNA sequencing technology to study these microbes straight from the source.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome Project's principal investigators.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

To investigate, researchers from the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, led by Amir Bashan, PhD, and Yang - Yu Liu, PhD, analyzed data from large metagenomic datasets (e.g. the Human Microbiome Project and Student Microbiome Project) to look at the dynamics of the gut, mouth and skin microbiomes of healthy subjects.

The U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to I.D. microbes in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts and guts of more than 200 Americans.

Two of the largest efforts are the Human Microbiome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (See «Your Microbial Menagerie,» page 4), and the European Union's Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract.

In the last four years, the U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and protozoa in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken in all.

Franzosa and colleagues used publicly available microbiome data produced through the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), which surveyed microbes in the stool, saliva, skin, and other body sites from up to 242 individuals over a months - long period.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

Not exact matches

The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.

(American Gut is a crowd - sourced project aimed at characterizing the human microbiome by the Rob Knight Lab at the University of California San Diego.)

The International Human Microbiome Consortium, established in 2008, and the International Human Microbiome Standards project, launched in 2011, have attempted to address some of these issues.

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

From the Microbiome Project we know that there are at least 100 trillion good bacteria that live in or on the human body.

Part of the Invisible You - the Human Microbiome exhibit at the Eden Project and funded by the Wellcome Trust, these «bellybutton» portraits capture the non-human part of ourselves.