Sentences with phrase «microbiome research at»

«Many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool samples are also present in food or in the mouth,» said lead study author Thomas A. Auchtung, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

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Shedd Aquarium's Microbiome Project is ideal for this research since it's the world's first comprehensive look at microbiomes in a controlled aquarium ecosystem.

It draws on our extensive interviews with key scientists working at the front - line of microbiome and epigenetic research with the aim of presenting complex science in a way that is easy - to - understand and accessible to all.

At this preliminary stage of ancient microbiome research, many findings make it sound like humanity has fallen from a primordial, pre-technological grace.

In the gleaming new Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, opened in 2014 at the University of Oklahoma, positive air pressure keeps out external contamination, and intense ultraviolet lamps are on standby to sterilize the lab between uses.

This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.

The newfound role of the soil microbiome — the collection of microscopic bacteria, fungi and archaea that interact with plant roots — represents a turning point for research aimed at understanding and predicting where important tree species will reside in the future.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

«Every human carries trillions of bacteria in their gut (gut microbiome) and recent advances in research indicate that these tiny passengers play an important role in our overall health maintenance,» says Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

We've used modern molecular approaches to characterize the vaginal microbiome and link specific bacteria to HIV acquisition risk in young women living in Sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV is most profound,» says first author Christina Gosmann, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

«If we want to engineer the right microbiome to support plant growth, we need to understand the real function of the microbiome and not just sequence marker genes,» said study co-first author Asaf Levy, a research scientist at the JGI.

«Based on our research, we identified more than a dozen microbes with known links to health that are heritable,» says Ley, also director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.

In recent years that view has shifted radically, opening brand - new fields of research aimed at clarifying the role the microbiome plays in common urologic diseases that affect children, according to a review article published online Feb. 22, 2018, by Current Urology Reports.

To detect NAFLD earlier and more easily, researchers in the NAFLD Research Center at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Human Longevity, Inc. and the J. Craig Venter Institute report that the unique microbial makeup of a patient's stool sample — or gut microbiome — can be used to predict advanced NAFLD with 88 to 94 percent accuracy.

Determining exactly who has or is at risk for the disease is a critical unmet medical need,» said first author Rohit Loomba, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, director of the NAFLD Research Center and a faculty member in the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.

«Historically, there have always been bacterial strain mix - ups in the course of doing research,» says Paul Keim, executive director of The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and senior author on the current study.

The field of microbiome research is relatively young; the database of 1,000 individuals collected at the Weizmann institute is one of the most extensive in the world.

Rob is a leading microbiome researcher who is at the forefront of microbial research.

«The data presented at AACR provide important new models and mechanistic insights that inform our planned development efforts to evaluate the ability of microbiome therapy to augment immune checkpoint inhibitors,» said David Cook, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Research at Seres.

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRB) today announced that new preclinical data supporting the development of microbiome therapeutics for immuno - oncology (leveraging gut microbiota to impact tumor immunotherapy) 1 will be presented today by Sceneay et al in the late breaking poster session at the 2018 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR) in Chicago.

Luis Pedro Coelho and his colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with Nestlé Research, studied the gut microbiome (the genetic material belonging to the microbiota) of beagles and retrievers.

At PNNL, she leads research into the microbiome, a term for the collective communities of microbes that reside in many environmental niches, including the human gut and soil.

She will discuss microbial community response to environmental conditions, and will describe the research mission of Microbiomes in Transition, an initiative she directs at PNNL.

Liang is a microbiome scientist at Merck's new research site in Cambridge, Mass..

Three researchers at the forefront of research on the microbiome - brain connection recently spoke with The Kavli Foundation about how microbes communicate with the brain and whether we can modify the gut microbiome to treat disorders of the brain and mind.

He lectures at many institutions, such as the National Institutes of Health, on the microbiome and his breakthrough research in the probiotic space.

The latest scientific research is now starting to indicate that if the baby is not properly seeded with the mother's own bacteria at birth, then the baby's microbiome, in the words of Rodney R Dietert, Professor of Immunotoxicology at Cornell University, is left «incomplete».

In fact, exactly how the gut microbiome «interacts with foods to produce health conditions» is considered a new and dynamic area for further research by individuals on all sides of the red meat - colon cancer debate.10 For example, researchers at Harvard Medical School are studying fecal samples to assess the impact of red meat intake on gut microbes and their byproducts, which the researchers speculate may influence «biological pathways associated with colorectal cancer and other digestive diseases.»

While the majority of the presentations at this conference were focused on omega - 3 fatty acids, microbiome research, micronutrients, and the Mediterranean diet, there were a few small breakout sessions exploring the potential benefits of ketogenic diets.

The latest research indicated that the benefits of coffee happens at the microbiome level.

She is director of the Colitis and Crohn's Disease Microbiome Research Core at the University of California, San Francisco.

While colostrum was at one time believed to be sterile, newer research shows that it actually contains microbiome - boosting probiotic bacteria, too.

In fact, recent research suggests that early microbiome development might play a key role in at least some aspects of one's adult mental health.

Jack Gilbert, a researcher at the University of Chicago's Microbiome Center who does research for Purina but was not involved in the study, told Popular Science the study was significant for what it showed about the similarities between the guts of dogs and our own.