Sentences with phrase «ancient human microbiomes»

Warinner is pioneering the study of ancient human microbiomes, and in 2014 she published the first detailed metagenomics and metaproteomic characterization of the ancient oral microbiome in the journal Nature Genetics.

An eighth - century coprolite, or fossilized feces, from a cave in Mexico provided the first evidence of an ancient human microbiome.

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Among human archaeological remains, coprolites can be a uniquely valuable record of ancient gut microbiomes — but they're rare to find.

«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.

The researchers discovered that the ancient human oral microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics in the 1940s.

A new era in palaeomicrobiology: prospects for ancient dental calculus as a long - term record of the human oral microbiome — Christina Warinner — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B — December 2014

Remarkably, investigations of highly preserved human coprolites (ancient stool samples retrieved from archeological sites) have demonstrated that their overall microbiome more closely resembles that of modern humans living in traditional rural settlements than that of the contemporary urban dweller [117].

A new study found that the skin microbiome — a collection of microorganisms inhabiting the human body — is governed, at least in part, by an ancient branch of the immune system called complement.