Sentences with phrase «for bacterial populations»

Although this is not generally true for bacterial populations, for these particular hot spring bacteria, new combinations are also the rule, rather than the exception.

Not exact matches

To test their hypothesis, the researchers delivered antibiotics to bacterial populations in the lab for precisely three hours each day.

With this new understanding of how bacterial populations evolve survival strategies against antibiotics, scientists could develop new approaches for slowing the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»

«This transient resistance, distributed in varying degrees among individual cells in a population, may be the norm for many bacterial populations,» Dunlop said.

«This indicates that the host environs are more permissive for infection by the entire bacterial population.»

Further down the line, he says, this could be harnessed for personal phage therapy, where specially designed bacteriophages can be inserted into the gut to kill or boost certain bacterial populations that have gone awry.

«Given that phenotypic heterogeneity within a bacterial population can increase its advantage of survival under stress conditions such as antibiotic treatment, this new technique is quite promising for future treatment of bacterial pathogens, as it enables de novo detection and characterization of epigenetic heterogeneity in a bacterial population.»

The genes encoding NDM - 1 and other antibiotic resistance factors are usually carried on plasmids — circular strands of DNA separate from the bacterial genome — making it easier for them to spread through populations.

Bacterial populations pose an intriguing puzzle: in so - called isogenic populations, all bacteria have the same genes, but they still behave differently, for example grow at different speeds.

For example, we stored the overall exposure time to chemical inducers in the DNA memory of bacterial populations for 12 days (~ 120 generations), independently of the induction patteFor example, we stored the overall exposure time to chemical inducers in the DNA memory of bacterial populations for 12 days (~ 120 generations), independently of the induction pattefor 12 days (~ 120 generations), independently of the induction pattern.

This provides new opportunities related to the study of how the heterogeneities that appear at lower levels of the functional hierarchy, for example at the level of bacterial populations, eventually end up in the same chemical pattern that is specific to different diseases.

They monitored gut bacterial populations in 10 pigs by searching for bacteria resistant to common drugs in their waste.

For instance, one theory predicts that bacterial populations are genetically diverse because they adapt to their surrounding conditions on a very small - scale, local level, leading to the establishment of distinct subpopulations, called ecotypes.

Sequencing can quantify how populations of specific bacterial strains vary under given experimental conditions, allowing the investigators to look for connections with disorders in the mice.

And because finch populations in the Western United States and Hawaii were not affected by this bacterial outbreak, genetic comparison can help determine whether Mhc genes were responsible for protecting finch populations on the East Coast after the initial disaster in 1994.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game - changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

Plant fiber can also increase bacterial populations for optimal gut health, to ultimately help boost your immune system and help fight inflammation.

For instance, an overburdened bacterial population in your microbiome may have allowed for a yeast overgrowth, whereas I may have a proliferation of a certain type of bacterium, throwing my flora out of balance and allowing for autoimmunity to occFor instance, an overburdened bacterial population in your microbiome may have allowed for a yeast overgrowth, whereas I may have a proliferation of a certain type of bacterium, throwing my flora out of balance and allowing for autoimmunity to occfor a yeast overgrowth, whereas I may have a proliferation of a certain type of bacterium, throwing my flora out of balance and allowing for autoimmunity to occfor autoimmunity to occur.

Separate research suggests people with the highest TMAO levels may have twice the risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or premature death compared to those with the lowest levels.4 The researchers therefore suggested that altering the bacterial population in your gut could have tremendous implications for heart health: 5

Across populations, kiwi is used in the preparation of antimicrobial products to reduce the development of resistance towards the conventional medications for fungal and bacterial infectivity.

A low - fiber diet, leading to reduced bacterial populations in the gut, may be desirable for bowel disease patients.

In that limited experimental sample, one vegan (free from dietary meat and dairy for at least one year) volunteered to eat meat until his native vegan GI bacterial population was replaced by the omnivore GI bacterial profile (as determined by stool samples).

The common characteristic of these bacterial populations is the lack of pathogenicity towards the host; they are actually necessary for protecting the host against other pathogenic bacteria.

Development of clinical signs in these individuals probably depends on the nature of the bacterial population (for instance, colonization with anaerobes is more likely to result in signs) and the effect of the overgrowth flora on the local immune system.

Also known as bubonic or septicemic plague, this highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis is the «Black Death» responsible for killing one - third to one - half of the world's population in Europe and Asia in the late 1340s.

Veterinarians can run tests and X-rays in their office to look for intestinal parasites or changes in bacterial population, parvovirus, foreign objects, infection, organ disease and common poisonings.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, the new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.