Sentences with phrase «microbiome research project»

Microbiome research project American Gut hit the big time in 2013, garnering major media attention and drawing in thousands of participants.

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Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

Edwardson will conduct research primarily in Shedd Aquarium's Microbial Ecology Lab, the headquarters for the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project.

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.

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.

Background: Wild Life of Our Homes is a research project where citizen scientists help researchers study the species that live alongside us everyday — the bacteria, fungi and viruses that make up a home's microbiome.

«Our findings point to two potential impacts from additional research — analyzing the diversity and composition of the microbiome to predict response to immunotherapy and modulating the gut microbiome to enhance treatment,» said Wargo, senior researcher on the project and co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.

Anthony Fiumera, associate professor of biological sciences, and Gretchen Mahler, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, are collaborating on a research project funded by a Binghamton University Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence (TAE) grant to discover the role ingested nanoparticles play in the physiology and function of the gut and gut microbiome.

Its goals are to support microbiome research, get the public involved in the project, and develop new technologies to study microbe communities.

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.

«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.

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.

Research Projects: Microbiomes and immune cells in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

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.

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.

The group of scientists who issued the call for a «Unified Microbiome Project» proposed a large - scale, public and private initiative to advance the science of microbiomes through the development of new research tools and interdisciplinary collaborations.

«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.»

Development of HipMCL was primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science via the Exascale Solutions for Microbiome Analysis (ExaBiome) project, which is developing exascale algorithms and software to address current limitations in metagenomics research.

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.

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.

Ken is currently involved with several research projects, including the US - based eXtreme Microbiome Project (XMP), as well as evaluating emerging technologies that can be used to profile the diversity of microbial communities.

One of the INFRAFRONTIER2020 project aims is to develop pilot platforms and services supporting microbiome research.

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.

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.

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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.

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