Sentences with phrase «about human microbiome»

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

She started Mostly Microbes as a reputable, scientific voice in the discussion about human microbiome research to help distinguish research findings from hype.

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While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

Meanwhile, we're working on our next film — due for launch in 2018, all about what practical things that can be done from birth onwards to establish, maintain, protect and restore the microbiome for optimal human health.

The midwifery and natural childbirth communities are abuzz with news of the premiere of Microbirth, a movie based on purported new medical discoveries about childbirth and the microbiome, the bacteria that normally live within the human intestines.

I just think it's really odd... when I was in school we were talking about all the wonders that will come from mapping the human genome... but I don't recall the term microbiome being mentioned a single time..

Join speakers Aunchalee Palmquist, Naomi Bar - Yam, Marion Rice, Angela Bond, Anna Kotlinska and Briana Tillman and learn more about breast milk and the microbiome, the knowns and unknowns of human milk sharing, ethics and control over human milk and much more!

The coprolites» exquisite preservation allowed the scientists to make the first confirmation of an ancestral, distinctly human microbiome, dating back to about A.D. 700.

Earlier studies have linked the human microbiome — that is, the collection of microbes living in and on the human body — to a variety of health conditions, but little is known about the role of the penile microbiome as it relates to men's health.

«The more we know about the microbial communities in a given environment, the more likely it is we can reshape them to improve environmental and human health,» said senior author Rob Knight, PhD, professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering, and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.

He added that little is known, however, about the underlying ecology that determines the make - up of the human microbiome.

However, in a new study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers have turned to analyzing the human microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.

«This study takes us a step further [than the human microbiome], and tells us about the necrobiome, the collection of microbes on a dead body,» said Dr. Robert DeSalle, Curator of Molecular Systematics at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not affiliated with the CUNY study.

«We set out to find out about human genes that are implicated in the regulation of the gut microbiome, and we found some that are,» says senior author Ruth Ley, an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University and the study's senior author.

Revelations about the role of the human microbiome in our lives have begun to shake the foundations of medicine and nutrition

Maybe one day when we know more about the microbiome in the human gut, scientists could develop a computer program to predict how the different types of food we eat, or antibiotics we take, affect the gut microbiome.

«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.

Biteen: We hear a lot about the human gut microbiome, but what is really interesting to me — and I only appreciated it recently — is that microbiomes are everywhere.

About OpenBiome OpenBiome is the first public stool bank, founded to expand safe access to fecal transplantation for patients with recurrent C. difficile infection and to catalyze research on the microbiome's role in human health.

Being able to track microbiomes could change how we think about and approach human and animal health.

About 100 trillion microbial cells populate the human microbiome, outnumbering cells ten to one.

Known in the past as gut bacteria and gut flora, the microbiota, or microbiome, is a collection of about 1,000 different kinds of bacteria that have immense importance to human health.

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.

Furthermore, more and more scientific research is exploring and confirming the necessity of the learning about the expansive gut microbiome in a healthy human body.

In the last five years, technology has allowed us to better understand the human microbiome — scientists have now identified and named 8,000 microbes and are learning more about their complex interactions each day.

The human gut biome (microbiome) consists of about 100 trillion bacteria cells — more than 10 times more than there are human cells in your body.

Your microbiome houses more than 10 trillion bacteria, outnumbering human cells by about 9:1.