Not exact matches
The January 11, 2014, issue of Science News focused on the
microbiome, the
diverse collection of microbes that reside in and on
humans and other organisms.
Like a lush rain forest, a healthy
microbiome in the
human gut is a
diverse ecosystem that thrives only when all the interdependent species are healthy too.
Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and
Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in
Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral
human oral and gut
microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in
microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between
humans and microbes has changed through time and how our
microbiomes influence health and disease in
diverse populations, both today and in the past.
More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed that the
human bladder hosts a significant
microbiome and those
diverse bacteria inside the bladder impact pediatric urologic diseases.
Microbiomes maintain healthy function of these
diverse ecosystems, influencing
human health, climate change, food security and other factors.
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.
The
human microbiome plays a role in processes as
diverse as body composition, immune function, and mental health.
In fact, an isolated Amazonian tribe has the most
diverse microbiome ever documented in
humans, meaning that despite never having been exposed to commercial antimicrobials, their microbes carry genes that are resistant to antibiotics.
Believe it or not, your
microbiome is home to trillions of microbes,
diverse organisms that help govern nearly every function of the
human body in some way....