Sentences with phrase «microbial communities much»

Not exact matches

A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies — known as the human microbiome — have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint.

Microbial communities in navels have much the same make - up as those behind the knees.

Two healthy Americans» microbial communities can differ by as much as 90 percent, but an individual's distinctive ensemble of bugs tends to stay stable over many years.

The study adds to knowledge of how microbes colonize our skin and how much our microbial communities — or microbiomes — change when we contact other people or surfaces, whether it's a doorknob at home or medical equipment in a hospital.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

But the caterpillars that munched on the plastic had a much more diverse native microbial community.

Surprisingly, the «decomposer» microbial communities under mice were similar in all three soils, much like the predictable succession in soils beneath the human cadavers.

«The deep - sea microbial communities in the Mediterranean fix as much or even more carbon dioxide each year as those in the surface layers,» says Yakimov.

The authors published their findings today in the journal Nature Medicine, concluding that too much dietary zinc «reduces the threshold of antibiotics that are needed to convert a resistant microbial community to one that is sensitive to C. diff.»

That said, even though someone who eats as much as 200 - 500g of carbs a day can still be starving their guts bugs if those foods contain little to now indigestible substrates (fiber), a generic rule of thumb (albeit an ugly measure) is less overall carbohydrates — especially when you start dropping below 75 - 100g a day — translates into a dramatic drop in the amount of food reaching your colon where the vast majority of your intestinal microbial community resides.