Sentences with phrase «human gut ecosystem»

After a short time investigating the deep biosphere he obtained a Lectureship (2001) in the Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland where he transferred these «omic» skills into the human gut and started to investigate the human gut ecosystem in health and disease.

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«The distal gut of a human is one of the densest microbial ecosystems on the planet,» says Stanford University microbiologist David Relman, a pioneer in human microbiome research.

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.

Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes in the gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the microbiome.

We identify ocean microbial core functionality and reveal that > 73 % of its abundance is shared with the human gut microbiome despite the physicochemical differences between these two ecosystems.

It is present in soil and, just like E. coli, it can also be found in the human gut, where a complex ecosystem of bacterial inhabitants exists.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

The method can be used to investigate the ecosystem in the Baltic sea or to understand how gut bacteria influence human health.

Bacteria alone make up two - thirds of all Earth's biodiversity, thriving in ecosystems as diverse as the human gut and the deep ocean.

This intelligent bacterial ecosystem in your gut makes up the majority of your immune system, and your body actually contains 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells!

We know that we have outsourced bodily functions to the ecosystem of microbes, predominantly located in our gut — one that contains 150 fold more genetic information than our human genome.