Sentences with phrase «gut bacteria»

The non-profit programme MyMicrobes, launched today, is inviting people to have their gut bacteria sequenced for about $ 1,500 (2,100).

Just four types of gut bacteria in the stool seem to make all the difference, predicting who will get the disease and who won't, researchers say.

«A high calorie diet means you may not be taking in a lot of fiber, which is an important food for the gut bacteria, and these gut bacteria devoid of any fiber may start eating away at the mucous and also start producing toxins, which causes inflammation to set in,» said Vanamala.

This was shown by adding the cephalosporinase - containing OMVs to cultures containing the ampicillin - susceptible gut bacteria, Bifidobacteria breve, which effectively protected them against high concentrations of antibiotics.

About halfway through, Alm learned the importance of his own diet after one meal radically altered the composition of his gut bacteria.

When scientists reported 2 years ago that mice with certain gut bacteria responded best to a powerful new type of cancer drug, other researchers were intrigued but cautious — mice, after all, aren't humans.

The researchers demonstrated this by isolating phage from either antibiotic - treated mice or untreated mice, then adding those phage to gut bacteria from untreated mice.

In goats, to the researchers surprise, the modified milk actually multiplied the amount of coliform gut bacteria.

«We know that gut bacteria are really integrated with our biology, and this reseach gives us a framework for investigating how that has come to be,» Moeller said.

«We may be closer to understanding the way gut bacteria and opportunistic pathogens such as Psa could affect celiac disease risk.

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«It is one more line of evidence that gut bacteria have cospeciated with humans.»

«Gut bacteria could tip balance in developing celiac disease or staying healthy: Gluten could be metabolized by bacteria.»

The team established gut bacteria cultures in flasks and then «fed» them two different diets — either a predigested potato, high - starch diet or a predigested grass, high - fiber diet.

Gut bacteria, in particular, guide the early development of our intestines, train our immune systems to fight pathogens and may even affect our moods and behavior.

When germ - free mice with no gut bacteria received fecal transplants from responders, they did better on PD - 1 blockers than did mice given nonresponder feces.

When she and Duarte raised the burying beetle larvae with germ - free mice, which lack any gut bacteria, the young did not grow as large as those buried with regular mice.

The work of Schoonjans» team suggests that this process can be coordinated by secondary bile acids, metabolites that are generated by our liver and gut bacteria.

To examine this phenomenon in detail, scientists from the KU Leuven Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics treated the gut bacteria Escherichia coli with daily antibiotic doses in the lab.

In the past, Collins and other scientists have probed the ways gut bacteria adapt to antibiotics, but they've focused on the bacteria themselves.

Antibiotics do not easily eradicate the gut bacteria Escherichia coli, as some bacteria survive treatment in a dormant state.

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They could also transfer them back to gut bacteria — a necessary step in conferring drug resistance.

Others came from the mouse gut bacteria, suggesting adult beetles regurgitate some of the microbes they consumed from the carcass.

At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, when the antibiotic gentamicin was no longer given for infections by a variety of resistant gut bacteria, including E. coli, the levels of resistance dropped accordingly.

«Gut bacteria that «talk» to human cells may lead to new treatments.»

In a double - barreled discovery, Brady and co-investigator Louis Cohen found that gut bacteria and human cells, though different in many ways, speak what is basically the same chemical language, based on molecules called ligands.

«It's crucial to understand the gut bacteria and this interplay,» said Dawson.

When they isolated samples of the common gut bacteria Escherichia coli, they found that a quarter were resistant to the antibiotic streptomycin.

Antibiotics aren't a recommended treatment for most infections because they kill good gut bacteria along with Salmonella.

Researchers at UC Davis have found that a gene, which is not active in some mothers, produces a breast milk sugar that influences the development of the community of gut bacteria in her infant.

But it turns out gut bacteria may also affect how we feel.

They also assessed the levels of gut bacteria and the «chemical fingerprints» of cellular processes (metabolites) in their stool and urine samples.

(Gut bacteria are part of the microbiome, the larger community of microbes that exist in and on the human body.)

In this instance, Cohen started with human stool samples in his hunt for gut bacteria with DNA he could engineer.

The ISRF - funded research on rats by W.R.F. Pover of the University of Birmingham suggested that gut bacteria help mediate sugar's adverse cardiovascular effects.

I first suspected I might be inhabited by traitors when I read a research paper linking gut bacteria to obesity.

The researchers will also study possible side effects from the modulation of gut bacteria and FXR by drug treatment.

«Multiple, co-existing groups of gut bacteria keep Clostridium difficile infections at bay.»

Scientists studying wallabies, a smaller relative of kangaroos, isolated gut bacteria that they have now classified as Wallaby Group 1 (WG - 1).

Exposure to psychological stress in the form of social conflict alters gut bacteria in Syrian hamsters, according to a new study by Georgia State University.

One possibility is that it is caused by a breakdown in the relationship between the gut bacteria and the body.

The virus, which replicates by infecting a species of common gut bacteria, is six times more abundant than all other known gut viruses combined.

In patients with colitis, inflammatory T cells in the lower intestines mistake the molecular structures of food or healthy gut bacteria for dangerous pathogens that must be destroyed.

«We don't have the tools to be able to screen for everything in a donor's stool,» said Sonnenburg, noting that gut bacteria have been implicated in obesity, as well as in neurological changes.

The link between the gut microbiome and obesity seems clear, but just how changes to gut bacteria can cause weight gain is not.

Concentrated milk fats, a common ingredient of processed foods and confectionery, trigger blooms of otherwise rare gut bacteria in mice that may contribute to inflammatory gut diseases.

To find out more, Mihai Covasa and his colleagues at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris swapped gut bacteria between obesity - prone and obesity - resistant rats.

«Social stress leads to changes in gut bacteria.»

There is evidence that gut bacteria can protect or predispose us to pathologies ranging from inflammation to diabetes and obesity.