Sentences with phrase «microbial cells in our bodies»

There are about as many microbial cells in our body as our own cells, and they appear to be transmitted from mother to child during birth and continually altered by the home environment, type of diet, medications and even the family pet.

In fact, there are over 10 times more microbial cells in our bodies than human cells.

Not exact matches

Nine in 10 of the cells in the body are microbial.

«Because we observed microbial effects mainly in the gut, we believe that a microbe - based therapy would avoid the collateral damage seen with drugs that wipe out classes of immune cells across the body,» said Benoist, a professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

In recent years, research has shown that what people commonly think of as «their» bodies contain roughly 10 microbial cells for each genetically human one.

The immune system maintains a rich abundance of «natural killer» cells to confront microbial invaders, but as the body gains the upper hand in various infections it sometimes starts to produce even more of the cells.

«It's likely that these microbial signals reach other cells throughout the body, which in turn mount their own specific responses,» Rawls said.

Building on this research, investigators are trying to unravel how vitamin D may protect cells in the colon and the microbial composition of the bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that live on and inside the human body, Moss noted.

«We now understand that there are more microbial cells than human cells in the human body.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

Human biology is not only manipulated by mutations; it is also influenced by the trillions of microbial residents — including viruses — that make up an estimated fifty percent of the cells in the human body.

Only 10 % of the cells in the human body are human, the rest are microbial.

They are so common that for every human cell of your body, there are 10 microbial cells living in and on you.

«90 % of the cells in the human body are not even human; they're microbial.»

The gut houses ten times more microbial species than the overall amount of cells in the entire body.