Sentences with phrase «how bacterial communities»

We've been going into hospitals and, with a very, very high temporal resolution, exploring how their bacterial communities change over time.

The PhyloChip enables scientists to quantify how bacterial communities interact and change over time without the need to grow bacterial cultures.

It is important for NASA to learn how bacterial communities that play roles in human health and disease are affected by spaceflight.

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Building 3 - D models of bacterial communities could help explain how the microbes work together and evade drugs, says bioengineer Jason Shear of the University of Texas at Austin.

As they await reaction from the scientific community, the team is exploring how to turn HAMLET into a usable treatment for cancer and bacterial infections.

It's unclear how these changes occur, said senior study author Maria Dominguez - Bello, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the university, «if these bacteria are transferred from the fingers to the lens and to the eye surface, or if the lenses exert selective pressures on the eye bacterial community in favor of skin bacteria.»

Kolker and his colleagues, meanwhile, are using genomic analyses to look at changes in bacterial communities in soils as proxies to understand how the wetlands may be affected by oil.

In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

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).

The role of bacteria in animal development, ecology and evolution is increasingly well - understood, yet little is known of how animal behaviour affects bacterial communities.

By combining detailed behavioural observations with molecular and bioinformatic analyses, we then test which of these mechanisms best explains how burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides, manipulate the bacterial communities on their carcass breeding resource.

As I previously mentioned, my study characterizing the bacterial and fungal communities in Crohn's patients resulted in my discovery of how bacteria and fungi work together to create digestive plaque.

How do we build up our bacterial community to help us live a healthier life?