Sentences with phrase «about microbial communities»

«Today we're able to compile immense data about microbial communities very quickly, but it's very difficult to put the information together to create a coherent picture,» she added.

«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 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.

I think the most fascinating thing about the microbial community to me is that you've got a community working together.

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«Also by studying how the gut microbiota usually recover after cholera, we gain new ideas about how to manage severely disturbed microbial communities, ideas that can be used to protect against diseases that often follow such disturbance, such as infections that commonly follow antibiotic use.»

«This happens because the presence of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount of enzymes produced by the microbial community, while the total amount of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University of Vienna ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

«If we want to make good decisions about which coral populations are more resilient and which ones need more help, this study suggests that we have to take their associated microbial communities into account,» she added.

After publishing comparative studies about microbial ice communities in alpine and antarctic ice together with MSU and the University of Barcelona, I was elected to represent Austria in the European Polar Board.

The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.

Jansson had long been curious about how these rapid temperature changes were affecting the underground microbial community, and whether these changes had any surprising side effects.

Since each bacterium's genome contains thousands of genes and each gene can express a protein, this technique made it possible to translate the reconstructed DNA of the microbial community into hundreds of thousands of proteins, which are then grouped into about 10,000 protein families.

Three and a half billion years ago our planet was quite different and Earth's earliest biosphere was dominated by microbial communities - complex multicellular organisms were not to evolve for quite some time, only arriving on the scene about 600 million years ago.