Sentences with phrase «microbes play»

Another big outcome is a deeper understanding of the roles subsurface microbes play in globally important carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles.

Scientists have long thought that methane - producing microbes contribute to climate change but are slowly learning just how big a role these microbes play.

There is mounting evidence that microbes play an important role in the pathogenesis of acute and chronic enteropathies of dogs, including idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

These microbes play a vital role in complex behaviors such as anxiety, learning and memory and appetite and satiety.

However, recent studies suggest that gut microbes play another crucial role in the human body by regulating circulating estrogen levels.

Scientists say finding is key because these microbes play role in immune system development and more

«These microbes play an essential role in digestion, metabolism, and the immune system, interacting with our cells in a number of ways,» said Pollard.

Microbes play crucial roles in regulating global cycles involving carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus among others, but many of them remain uncultured and unknown.

Recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of life on our planet is microbial; however, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

«Microbes play a significant role in the health of the digestive tract and many digestive diseases result when the microbial environment is out of balance,» said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.

Other sequencing studies have illustrated the critical role soil microbes play in breaking down pollutants.

However, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function — how they communicate with each other and their hosts, how they interact in complex communities, and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

«While we are only just beginning to understand the complex roles microbes play in human biology, it is clear specific changes in microbial flora are associated with — and sometimes cause or cure — disease in the host,» said Pollard while explaining her research focus.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

By demonstrating that key individual species within the ecosystem can play a disproportionally large role in carbon cycling, this study helps bring us a step closer to understanding the function these microbes play in larger questions of climate warming and increased acidity in the ocean.

There, the microbes play a role in digesting carbohydrates, or sugars.

«We don't know the relative contribution that the microbes play in the eventual flavor and sensory characteristics of the wine,» he says.

Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from regulating plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact global climate.

Researchers worldwide are discovering the specific roles microbes play in our health.

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

Not exact matches

Math and science nerds should also be excited because they may finally have a few more emojis to play with, including an abacus, petri dish, DNA strand, microbe, and test tube.

Research also says that the baby microbiome (the little ecosystem of microbes living in baby's gut) plays a role.

First of all, your baby's «gut» starts developing in utero and once baby is born, about three days after birth, she will be exposed to trillions of microbes that will eventually play a critical role in her health.

A growing number of researchers believe that good old - fashioned playing in the dirt exposes children to a myriad of bacteria, viruses and microbes that strengthen their immune systems.

«It was fun to play with microbes and figure out how to take advantage of them and learn how they behave in different applications.»

The findings suggest that these particles, which end up at municipal sewage treatment plants after being washed off in showers, could eliminate microbes that play vital roles in ecosystems and help treat wastewater.

Microbes may have played a role in making us, us.

In addition to the bacteria that can make us sick, researchers have known for a few decades that we play host to friendly microbes as well.

Bacteria make up the vast majority of microbes in the adult body, so this finding suggests that fungi may play an unexpectedly important role both in the early development of microbial communities and in the health of infants.

Far from being passive hangers - on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them

«To not consider how microbes influence soil carbon in offsetting ways, promoting losses through enhanced decomposition but gains by protecting soil carbon, would lead to overestimates or underestimates of the role soils play in influencing global climate.»

The innate immune response constitutes the first line of defense against invading microbes and plays a role in inflammatory disease.

Scientists have long known of the important roles played by the microbes on and in our bodies — our microbiomes.

Bateson and Martin give many examples of people attributing major achievements to play, including Nobel laureates Richard Feynman and Alexander Fleming («I play with microbes,» he once said, by way of a job description).

Gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson's - like movement disorders in genetically predisposed mice, researchers report December 1 in Cell.

«We have found groups of genes that may play a role in shaping the development of imbalanced gut microbes.»

Finding that limit — the goal of the 62 - day T - Limit campaign, part of the International Ocean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cycles.

«Microbes involved in the nitrogen cycle, which are still active today, could have played a major role in calcite precipitation because of their ability to increase the pH,» explains Dr Stinnesbeck.

Dusty air blowing across the Pacific from Asia and Africa plays a critical role in precipitation patterns throughout the drought - stricken western U.S. Today, a scientist will present new research suggesting that the exact chemical make - up of that dust, including microbes found in it, is the key to how much rain and snow falls from clouds throughout the region.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

To find out just what role they play, evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf of the University of Colorado, Boulder, set out to survey the microbes in, on, and around corpses.

Researchers are still piecing together the complex role that microbes in and on human bodies play in human immunity, and how those microbes respond to stress.

The findings strengthen a growing body of evidence that the microbes of our intestines play an important and unexpected role in an array of maladies.

In a 1984 paper in The Lancet, the two first suggested that the microbe, which they then classified as a new Campylobacter species, might play a role in causing ulcers.

In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.

In the current study, being published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the international interdisciplinary research team demonstrates that the transport of molecules across the blood - brain barrier can be modulated by gut microbes — which therefore play an important role in the protection of the brain.

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well - being, but one University of California, Berkeley, biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

Gut bacteria that make up the gastrointestinal microbiome play an important role in the metabolism of most chemicals humans ingest, motivating studies of microbe - driven breakdown of clinically important drugs.

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.