Not exact matches
It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in
bacterial composition, and
from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that
bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.
The
bacterial community
from the healthy child remained fairly stable in species
composition and enzyme profile.
That is, a healthy thin person has a
composition and diversity of
bacterial chemical species that is very different
from those of an obese person,» researchers point out.
«We know
from previous human studies that changes in gut
bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between
bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.
In order to find out which
bacterial species may be present in the air and on the surfaces inside spacecraft and how the
composition of the microbiota may change during human habitation, a crew of six male «Marsonauts» lived inside a mock - up spacecraft, located in Moscow,
from 3rd June 2010 to 5th November 2011.
Scientists
from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the
composition of
bacterial communities in different digestion - associated organs but found no unusual or special microbial communities when they compared these with those of other mammals.
Drought consistently alters the
composition of soil fungal and
bacterial communities in grasslands
from two continents — Raúl Ochoa - Hueso — Global Change Biology
When the team first examined the microbial
composition of intestinal biopsies, they saw the
bacterial strains in the tumors and surrounding tissues of colon cancer patients differed
from the
bacterial strains in the gut of healthy individuals.
The
composition of human flatus has been studied (Suarez et al. 1997; Tomlin et al. 1991), and comprises mostly nitrogen and oxygen (derived
from air that has been swallowed or diffusion
from the blood), and carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane (arising intraluminally
from chemical reactions and
bacterial fermentation).