Sentences with phrase «controlled by the microbes»

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A study published by Cell Press October 16th in Cell now reveals that gut microbes in mice and humans have circadian rhythms that are controlled by the biological clock of the host in which they reside.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

Many common diseases may be influenced by the microbiome, because microbes control many of the body's essential chemical processes: They predigest our food, chemically modify the pills we take, shape our immune system responses, and repel infectious invaders.

The scientists say their light - responsive circuit could help control the flux of metabolic pathways in vats of microbes used to produce pharmaceuticals or industrial chemicals, by turning on and off in response to red, green, and blue light — a veritable bacterial disco.

Resistance to antibiotics by bacteria and other microbes is an ongoing public health crisis, contributing to about two million infections and 23,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study thereby introduces a new possible control mechanism — enabled by social interactions among individual microbes — that may help to explain the massive reservoir of carbon and other nutrients in soil.

For decades, researchers have worked to improve cacao fermentation by controlling the microbes involved.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

One of the main ways that hosts manage their interactions with microbes is by carefully controlling the genes that their cells use.

Their analysis demonstrated that under carefully controlled conditions, a microbe called Clostridium thermocellum is twice as effective as fungal enzymes used by industry today.

Now, researchers suggest that damage control is helped by the microbe's tendency to pack extra copies of its genome into tidy doughnuts of DNA.

Even insects that ate GDL but no pathogen died sooner than control animals, their bodies ravaged by opportunistic microbes.

By controlling which genes were turned off, the team could dictate which sugars the microbes could consume.

«By controlling the types of microbes that thrive around their roots, plants could be trying to protect themselves from less friendly pathogens while promoting other microbes that stimulate nutrient supply.

The new study found that the level to which the immune systems of mice tolerated H. hepaticus is determined by the interplay of two types of T cells, which control whether the immune response to a microbe amplifies.

Framing ecological adaptations manifested in morphological and behavioral phenotypes of species from microbes to man in the context of evolution should be detered by experimental evidence of ecological speciation that is nutrient - dependent and pheromone - controlled.

Studies conducted and supported by NIAID have led to important new discoveries about the microbes that cause NTDs, the identification of targets for potential new drugs and vaccines, and the development of strategies for controlling organisms that transmit NTD - causing agents to humans.

Some studies have explored the means by which microbes might control hosts» brain function and social behavior.

Sari Peura is trying to understand how microbes control the carbon cycle in habitats where the food web is sustained by external organic carbon inputs.

MPK4 controls what is known as systemic acquired resistance, or SAR, which occurs as a response to invasion by microbes.

«When we first realized infections were caused by microbes, and that we could control that with sanitation and drugs, that was considered a great thing.

«Microbes are required by our defenses to communicate, educate as well as to stimulate and control the form of immunity we are going to develop».

Again, the minimization of the detrimental LPS burden by beneficial microbes appears to be a central mechanism in the promotion of normal glycemic control [89].

Identify the key variables that are likely to control the mobility and availability of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus from thawed permafrost and how these and other important biogeochemical materials will be processed by microbes and vegetation.