Sentences with phrase «microbial communities for»
PULLMAN, Wash. — Researchers at Washington State University have discovered a new type of cooperative photosynthesis that could be used in engineering microbial communities for waste treatment and bioenergy production.
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The bottom line: studying such interactions can help scientists identify principles that can be used to design microbial communities for biomass conversion to biofuels and other processes.
Experts say focus on function to develop resilient microbial communities for biotechnologies
«Microbial communities for health and environment: Precise measurements of microbial ecosystems.»
Harnessing a Methane - Fueled, Sediment - Free Mixed Microbial Community for Utilization of Distributed Sources of Natural Gas — Jeffrey J. Marlow — Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Not exact matches
The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.
Everyone I am aware of recommends against such practices for the sake of that microbial communities.
«Human microbial communities play an important role in digestion and immune health and are believed to collectively endow us with the essential traits we rely on for such functions, according to the research team.
There have been no long - term longitudinal studies of the effects of early feeding method on the microbiome, but early feeding has the potential for lasting effects on microbial community structure, 32 and these effects may be one mechanism for the health benefits of breastfeeding on childhood and lifelong health.
«We found that babies who are fed only breast milk have microbial communities that seem more ready for the introduction of solid foods,» the study's lead author Dr. Andrea Azcarate - Peril, assistant professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, said in a press release.
Our research advances our knowledge of the impact of management practices on microbial communities and adds to a growing understanding of their importance for animal and environmental health.
It also raises the possibility of engineering microbial communities to provide treatments to parts of the body that are easy for them to invade.
The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.
In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.
A high diversity of microbial communities in the water could also reduce the potential for infection, according to earlier investigations conducted by UFZ researchers and published in Current Biology.
«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»
Without that information, it's impossible to know, for example, how antibiotics affect the microbial community in the intestines, he says.
Enabled by cutting - edge technologies at GIS, I look forward to more studies in this area with a view to understanding the role of microbial communities in diseases, and eventually leading to better health outcomes for patients.»
«Microbial communities also play an important role in stabilizing vineyard ecosystems which can reduce the need for pesticides and other resource inputs,» Bowen adds.
«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate mechanisms that depend on social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing for food and space at the smallest scale.»
«The more we know about the microbial communities in a given environment, the more likely it is we can reshape them to improve environmental and human health,» said senior author Rob Knight, PhD, professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering, and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.
We also look for fossils of structures called stromatolites, which are reefs built by microbial communities.
A new Journal of Internal Medicine article proposes that artificial intelligence tools, such as machine learning algorithms, have the potential for building predictive models for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases linked to imbalances in gut microbial communities, or microbiota.
This was associated with a change in the soil microbial community and an increase in the number of enchytraeid worms — these worms are the main soil fauna in peatlands that are responsible for decomposition.
These bursts were found in phylogenetic trees created for 22 microbial communities, chosen to represent a breadth of habitat types: plant, marine, and human gut and skin.
The study suggests a new method to show how microbial communities, including those responsible for illnesses like Legionnaires» disease, may assemble inside the plumbing systems of homes and public buildings.
The microbial communities in these sediments include aggregates of methane - oxidizing archaea called ANME (for ANaerobic MEthanotrophs) and sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) that live together symbiotically and help to remove some 80 percent of the methane released from ocean sediments.
The team also shows how to identify bacteria most crucial for a healthy and stable microbial community, which could inform the development of probiotics and other therapies.
«So we have a microbial community isolated from the surface for 20 million years, and this community uses sulfate and H2 produced from inorganic processes.»
Understanding the different modes of formation, and the contrasting geophysical dynamics, of these habitats is important for understanding the ecology of the different microbial communities.
But Michael Shapira, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of integrative biology, believes that the diverse microbial communities that we harbor have a more profound effect, significantly ratcheting up evolution in an intimate collaboration for survival.
One explanation for this could be that the greater variations in environmental conditions, particularly the fluctuating substrate concentration, increased the diversity of the microbial community, leading to more functional groups of bacteria.
«The intestine has a tough assignment — it has to allow for digestion and absorption of dietary nutrients while also carefully harboring and managing the teeming microbial community within,» said John Rawls, an associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke School of Medicine.
Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.
Due to appropriate cleaning measures, the microbial community inside the habitat was under control at all times with no or little risk for the crew.»
High pulse energies are for raw substrate treatment yielding a high level of cell killing and disintegration while moderate pulse protocols are used for recirculate where the focus lies on the control of the microbial community.
Methane - producing microbial communities have been studied for decades, Lovley notes, «but all this time we were missing a major pathway of methane production.»
Scientists have discovered that deep - sea microbial communities, buried for 86 million years, are still consuming oxygen, albeit at extraordinarily low rates.
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California, San Diego indicates unique and changing microbial communities present during the decomposition of human cadavers look to be a reliable «clock» for forensic scientists.
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the composition of bacterial communities in different digestion - associated organs but found no unusual or special microbial communities when they compared these with those of other mammals.
Microbial communities can subsist at depth in marine sediments without fresh supply of organic matter for millions of years.
«Microorganisms are in a constant fight for territory, for food sources, for their place in that microbial community,» says Karen Bartlett of the University of British Columbia, an expert in the behavior of biological aerosols.
For example, the large - scale sequencing program has already started to sequence the genomes of 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, and will build on this by using genomic sequencing to characterize the complex microbial communities found at many sites in and on the human body.
For instance, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)(Turnbaugh et al, 2007; Peterson et al, 2009; Huttenhower et al, 2012) and MetaHIT (Qin et al, 2010) have generated maps of bacterial species abundances throughout the human body, reference genomes, and catalogs of more than 100 million microbial genes assembled from shotgun sequencing of in vivo communities.
In a milestone for the medical and scientific community, he re-engineered the microbial CRISPR - Cas9 system for genome editing in human cells.
The Kavli Ideas Challenge invites the broad scientific community — including microbiologists, nanoscientists, neuroscientists, engineers, chemists, materials scientists, physicists and others — to submit their ideas for groundbreaking experimental tools and methods for understanding microbial function.
Microbial communities in seawater from an Arctic and a temperate Norwegian fjord and their potentials for biodegradation of chemically dispersed oil at low seawater temperatures — Deni Ribicic — Marine Pollution Bulletin
This Ideas Challenge invites the broad scientific community — including microbiologists, nanoscientists, neuroscientists, engineers, chemists, materials scientists, physicists and others — to submit innovative, blue - sky, and aspirational ideas for novel experimental tools and methods for understanding microbial function.
In 2016, the broad scientific community was invited to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.
Again applying his knowledge of microbial communities» consumption patterns, his system there derived some of the chemicals and energy required for treatment from the sludge itself, thereby offsetting a percentage of the required chemical and energy inputs.