Sentences with phrase «bacteria than human»

You could honestly say that you are more bacteria than human... Weird thought, eh?

Scientists beleive that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in the body, making us more bacteria than human.

Each of us is literally more bacteria than human.

Yes, we have 10 times more bacteria than human cells in our bodies.

The body contains more bacteria than human cells, and proper bacterial balance is vital for health.

You are, in truth, actually more bacteria than human, a sort of vehicle or host for the microbiome.

With your gut containing 100 trillion bacteria, and there being 10 trillion human cells, you are, in fact, 10 times more bacteria than human!

The human body contains more bacteria than human cells.

We are more bacteria than human, or as humans we are basically just a bunch of bacteria.

Not exact matches

This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.

GSE has been proven more effective at killing bacteria than industrial cleaners in hospital settings and it is safe and non-toxic for humans and their animals.

More than 500 diverse species of bacteria reside in the human gut and probiotics are useful in replenishing the concentration of healthy bacteria that thrive (12).

Formula grows bacteria much more readily than human milk does.

But while applauding the group's initiative, David Doig, chief of the Chicago Park District, pointed out the group, the Sierra Club, used a test that the U.S. EPA considers less reliable for predicting the presence of bacteria harmful to humans than the one used daily at Park District beaches.

(The bacteria are much smaller than human cells, so their total weight is often estimated to be around two to five pounds.)

Human musk is a complex medley of skin, sweat and bacteria, and scientists still do not know why one person's skin makes for a more attractive dish than her or his neighbor's.

In the last four years, the U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and protozoa in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken in all.

Shorter than the width of a human hair, the roots absorbed lichen, bacteria and algae blowing about in the sand.

The price for trainer and dog to travel and work for a week would range between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000, but using other specialized tests — say, genetic fingerprinting to help investigators distinguish between animal and human fecal bacteria — would cost more than $ 100,000, Bell said.

The body contains 10 times more bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms than human cells.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

«The human gut hosts tens of trillions of microorganisms, including more than 1,000 species of bacteria,» she said.

People with heart disorders also have higher than average levels of certain bacteria, according to genomic sequencing of the human gut.

Alien life, if it exists, could be as simple as bacteria or more complex than humans — and there are optimal strategies for searching for both

«We are more bacteria than we are human,» says Scheiman, who is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of George Church, Ph.D., at Harvard Medical School.

Trillions of bacteria live in human intestines — there are about ten times more bacterial cells in the average person's body than human ones.

Moeller found that two of three major families of gut bacteria in apes and humans trace their origins to a common ancestor more than 15 million years ago, not primarily to bugs picked up from their environment.

That, too, is unusual, especially given that on the tree of life, even primitive anaerobic fungi, like the three that underwent genome sequencing in this study, are evolutionarily much closer to humans than to bacteria.

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

Respiration by bacteria may have slightly increased levels of CO2 in pockets of air trapped within polar ice caps meaning that before human activity CO2 levels may have been even lower than previously thought.»

The older mice fed a diet containing extra amounts of vitamin E, the equivalent to about 200 IU / day consumed by humans — about 10 times the Recommended Daily Allowance but well below the upper limit — were far more resistant to the bacteria than the older mice that had a normal amount of vitamin E in their diet.

The researchers found that bacteria forming part of a cluster were more likely to be taken up by human cells and to survive in them than the microbes without close relatives; the cluster strains also caused more severe disease in mice.

Human cells are much more complex than bacteria.

Methods: The PNNL mass spectra data used by the team included samples taken from a diverse set of more than 100 organisms, including humans, the common house mouse, and the metal - reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis.

There are currently more than 200 zoonotic diseases caused by viruses, parasites, bacteria, and fungi that are directly or indirectly transferred by animals to humans.

Spurred by this finding, Littman's team examined the gut microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, and found a much higher proportion of patients than healthy individuals who harbored the human intestinal bacterium Prevotella copri.

Their evidence: Water samples in areas with more than 1,621 septic tanks had far higher levels of bacteria associated with human feces than did areas with few septic tanks.

The influence of microbes is even inscribed on our genome: More than a third of human genes have their origins in bacteria.

The human microbiome — the diverse array of bacteria, yeast, parasites, and other single - celled organisms that live in and on our bodies — is comprised of more microbes than there are stars in the galaxy, and the genes encoded in microbiome DNA vastly outnumber our own genes.

While the genomes of two humans may only vary by 0.1 %, two strains of the same bacteria can differ by more than 50 % — greater than the disparity between the genomes of humans and mice.

BSI member and lead researcher Professor Robin May explained, «Fungi are intrinsically more difficult to target than bacteria, because they are much more closely related, evolutionarily, to humans.

As humans, we have more bacterial cells than human cells and these bacteria drastically affect our lives on a daily basis.

The human gut contains 10 times more bacteria than all the human cells in the entire body, with over 400 known diverse bacterial species.

This study shows that the scars of people recovering from surgery heal faster when Manuka honey is part of the post-operative process than when it's not, and other research points to medical - grade Manuka honey as a powerful antibacterial agent, one that has «bactericidal activity against antibiotic - resistant bacteria» that pose a danger to humans.

The last 25 % of the teeth contained bacteria which produce toxins more powerful than botulinum (Important note, botulinum is widely recognized as the most toxic substance known to humans).

Dr. Ayers says that «food intolerance is based on missing bacteria in the gut rather than inadequacy of human enzymes, e.g. lactase, or altered immune system.

The healthy flora in our guts and vaginas are under constant attack in our modern life, so much so that average Americans have 50 % less gut bacteria diversity than humans who don't live in our fast - paced western world.

In fact, studies of the few remaining indigenous cultures on the planet show humans once served as host to significantly more gut bacteria than is found in Westerners today.

Furthermore human studies have shown that obese people have a much different gut bacteria makeup than their non-obese counterparts -LRB-

We have 10 times more bacteria in our gut than we have cells in our bodies and this bacteria makes up 99 % of the DNA in our bodies... which means only 1 % of our DNA is human!