Sentences with phrase «developed human microbiomes»

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Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome, researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors» microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.

Mice raised with human microbiomes never develop mature immune systems, which may explain the rise in immunological illnesses

Researchers speculate that when microbes mix, humans may take bacterial souvenirs from one another, a potential contributor to how we develop our individual microbiomes.

Although common in humans, domestic pets, and zoo animals, periodontal disease does not typically develop in wild animals, leading to speculation that it is an oral microbiome disease resulting from modern human lifestyles.

A team of investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Massachusetts have developed a suite of computer algorithms that can accurately predict the behavior of the microbiome — the vast collection of microbes living on and inside the human body.

The intestinal microbiota of healthy humans progressively develops in complexity from birth until adulthood, where a stable microbiome is established for the majority of an individual's adult life (Arumugam et al., 2011; Jalanka - Tuovinen et al., 2011; Durbán et al., 2012).

When they are given a microbiome in the form of a fecal transplant from a human donor, however, they plump up within a day or two because the bacteria help them digest their food and develop a proper metabolism.

Developing a Bacteroides System for Function - Based Screening of DNA from the Human Gut Microbiome — Kathy N. Lam — mSystems

He has developed an algorithm that identifies the biosynthetic genes in bacterial genomes and has applied this algorithm to the human microbiome.

Maybe one day when we know more about the microbiome in the human gut, scientists could develop a computer program to predict how the different types of food we eat, or antibiotics we take, affect the gut microbiome.

A Unified Microbiome Initiative would develop the transformative tools and research teams we need to harness the power of these communities to improve human health, agricultural productivity, bioenergy production, and environmental stability,» Chun said.

With support from numerous federal agencies, the initiative promises to develop scientific tools and training programs centered around the microbiome to combat chronic human diseases, climate change, food security, and more.

In the proposed partnership between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the objective is to build genomics capacity at AAU and to apply newly developed skills towards understanding the relationships of active TB disease with Mtb strain type diversity and host components such as the human respiratory microbiome and protein - based analysis of immune responses in the respiratory tract.

Her laboratory focuses on (1) the use of next generation sequencing to define the microbiome and host immunologic features in patients with human diseases and (2) developing custom computational tools for the identification of novel human commensals and pathogens in these inpatient populations, and (3) using statistical and functional biological methods to understand the complex interplay between the human microbiome and host biology.

Most diseases don't develop because the human genome is inherently flawed, but rather because of unfavorable interactions that take place between the human genome and its environment, including the human microbiome.

Known collectively as the microbiome, these trillions of live bacteria found in the human body influence everything from your immune system to your likelihood of developing chronic degenerative disease.

By using data to better understand the human microbiome, more effective diagnostic tools and therapies can be developed.