Sentences with phrase «for microbiome studies»

Identify new cross-disciplinary methods for microbiome studies.

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«It also brings in the question of diet,» says Wargo, who is now working on new clinical studies on the microbiome with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

It was the largest scientific campaign ever at the time and responsible for collecting microbiotic samples from 2,500 people — the largest study that's ever been done on the microbiome.

In a recent study, researchers in Sweden came up with a mathematical formula to help find the right eating plan for each person based on his or her microbiome.

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Surprisingly, both the fiber additives and the supplements FAIL to feed your microbiome, and instead, they CANNIBALIZE the mucus lining for fuel, at least for mice, according to this study.

«Further studies are needed to delineate if specific changes in maternal diet during breast - feeding alter the infant gut microbiome and to determine if this results in any health consequences for the infant,» said Kristen Meyer, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and the presenter of the study at the SMFM annual conference.

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral plenary session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, will present their findings on a study titled, Maternal Diet Structures the Breast Milk Microbiome in Association with Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Gut - Associated Bacteria.

The contribution of the mode of delivery to the infant microbiome has been evaluated.13, 15,24 However, no study has examined the effects of delivery mode and breastfeeding following adjustment for the other, and, to our knowledge, there are few data on the effects of combination feeding (feeding breast milk and formula together).

There have been no long - term longitudinal studies of the effects of early feeding method on the microbiome, but early feeding has the potential for lasting effects on microbial community structure, 32 and these effects may be one mechanism for the health benefits of breastfeeding on childhood and lifelong health.

Oligosaccharides in breast milk are thought to promote Bifidobacterium growth, 35 and decreased Bifidobacterium in infancy has been found to be associated with an increased risk for being overweight at age 10 years.36 Many formulas are supplemented with prebiotics such as short - chain galacto - oligosaccharides and long - chain fructo - oligosaccharides that increase the overall representation of Bifidobacterium in the microbiome of formula - fed infants, and similar to breast milk, promote lactate and short - chain fatty acid prevalence in the infant gut (reviewed in the study by Oozeer et al37).

«The study advances our understanding of how the gut microbiome develops early in life,» Thompson said, «which is clearly a really important time period for a person's current and future health.»

While the study looked only at the ability of fish to exchange microbes, it suggests that microbiome variation among different people might also be due to the movement of microbes, and that when people come together for a class or a meeting, for example, they may depart with a microbiome that is somewhat different than when they entered, Bohannan said.

«Microbial dispersal impacts animal guts: Study with zebrafish finds that transmitted microbes will lead to similar microbiomes and a selection process for some microbes.»

«Cultural revolution in the study of the gut microbiome: Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.»

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

«Study points to penile microbiome as a risk factor for HIV in men.»

This study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any gMicrobiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any gMicrobiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any gmicrobiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time.

«Our study has the potential to help future studies explore novel insights into a possible role of the microbiome in the increased risk for eye infections in contact lens wearers,» Dominguez - Bello said.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

In the past, Meadow says, our knowledge about the skin microbiome came from medical studies attempting to retrace the steps of a single pathogen, for example through a hospital during an outbreak.

«The intestinal bacteria, or «gut microbiome,» you develop at a very young age, can have a big impact on your health for the rest of your life,» said the study's lead author Dan Knights, a University of Minnesota assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Biotechnology Institute.

It's too early yet to offer any advice to contact lens wearers, Dominguez - Bello said: «Other studies have shown increased risks for eye infections in contact lens wearers, and this might relate to impacting the microbiome.

In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Content.

However, in a new study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers have turned to analyzing the human microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.

«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.

His group is now preparing a more ambitious study that compares the microbiomes of people who completely avoid emulsifiers for several weeks with those on a standard Western diet.

In a study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes — that is, unbalance the natural coral «microbiome» — opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate corals» mucus and their bodies as a whole.

For now, all these possible links between the microbiome and our health still need to be firmed up with more studies.

«Many of the fungi most commonly detected in stool samples are also present in food or in the mouth,» said lead study author Thomas A. Auchtung, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

The study has wide reaching implications for understanding the evolution of the human oral microbiome and the origins of periodontal disease.

To guarantee a safe environment for astronauts on long - duration space missions such as a journey to Mars, it is important to monitor how microorganisms such as bacteria adapt to the confined conditions onboard spacecraft, according to a study published in the open access journal Microbiome.

In future studies, the researchers will examine whether similar mechanisms exist in other insect species and look for additional toxic compounds that shape the microbiome during host development.

Although amplicon has been the traditional workhorse for studies on microbial life, the spike in human microbiome research inspired many scientists to switch to shotgun, which is cheaper and generates more genetic information.

This is the first study describing the composition of the eye microbiome of a non-human mammal by high - throughput sequencing and it establishes the healthy baseline for this body part to which microbiomes of diseased states can be compared.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

For instance, one priority could be to increase the number and diversity of people sampled in studies of the human microbiome.

Entomologist Matan Shelomi, affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, spent years studying the gut microbiomes of herbivorous stick insects (Phasmatodea).

Create a working group to oversee the development and implementation of guidelines for the study of microbiomes, drawing on and developing those already established by other initiatives such as the Earth Microbiome Project.

The present study was designed as a way to understand how human to human contact influences the skin microbiome, since contact has long been acknowledged as a major dispersal vector for skin bacterial communities (Hamburger, 1947; Pittet et al., 2006).

In addition to genetic data and microbiome composition, the information collected for each study participant included dietary habits, lifestyle, medications and additional measurements.

Would tools for studying microbiomes enable more effective production of biofuels or other useful materials?

DuPont said that, together with the APC Microbiome Institute, it will be studying maternal and infant microbiomes in order to «develop solutions for establishing a healthy microbiome in early liMicrobiome Institute, it will be studying maternal and infant microbiomes in order to «develop solutions for establishing a healthy microbiome in early limicrobiome in early life.»

Other investigators on this study were Caitlin E. Millett, graduate student, psychiatry and neural and behavioral sciences; Dahlia Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow, and Aubrey Reider, research assistant, in the Department of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University of South Florida, School of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM — Core.

Ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

Of special note today: gut microbiota species expressing orthologs of human Ro60 might be involved in triggering and sustaining chronic autoimmunity in lupus; The portal vein blood microbiome in patients with liver cirrhosis; A randomized clinical study suggests dietary promotion of short chain fatty acid producing gut microbes as an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes; and the sexual dimorphism of root, flower and leaf microbiomes in the wild strawberry plant

How is nanotechnology developed to study the brain useful for investigating microbiomes in other places?

Ideally, ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the Earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

The Microbiome Initiative aims to undertake the critical scientific challenges at hand, namely finding a way for modern medicine to translate basic biological and chemical studies into microbiome - targeted interventions to Microbiome Initiative aims to undertake the critical scientific challenges at hand, namely finding a way for modern medicine to translate basic biological and chemical studies into microbiome - targeted interventions to microbiome - targeted interventions to treat IBD.

«For more than a century, it's been known that plants influence the makeup of their soil microbiome, in part through the release of metabolites into the soil surrounding their roots,» said Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher Kateryna Zhalnina, the study's lead author.