Sentences with phrase «microbial community changes»

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

Moreover, the study shows that the microbial community changes through time in a predictable way.

For example, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine found that participants» microbial community changed as their body weight decreased, to resemble a «lean» person's microbiome.

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.

However, in the last few centuries of human - microbe interactions, changes in our birth and medical practices and living conditions may have altered the acquisition of our microbial communities.

His team knew that microbial communities on skin tend to be unique to the individual and change little over time.

Different changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are associated with different risk levels and types of gastric tumor, according to a new study in PLOS Pathogens.

«The next phases are a lot more soil biology, measuring changes below ground in fungal and microbial communities to get a handle on how they are responding to the warming.»

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.

Indeed, «We found changes in the host microbial community throughout the entire gastrointestinal tract,» said Dawson.

Mothers known as «non-secretors» have a non-functional fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) gene, which alters the composition of their breast milk sugars and changes how the microbial community, or microbiota, of their infants» guts develop.

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.

But scientists including DeBruyn are also starting to look at timing death using changes in the microbial community during decomposition (SN Online: 7/22/15).

One avenue of research is the changing microbial community in the soil beneath decomposing bodies.

Researchers have also detected a change in the rodents» microbiome, the natural microbial community in their guts.

Mouse studies have shown that stress, particularly early in life, can change microbial communities, and not in a good way.

The product affected certain gut bacteria without changing the global composition of the microbial community.

Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.

«Our results confirmed the changes in nutrient condition and microbial community in water caused by a small amount of feces,» Lee concluded.

«Now we need to improve predictions of how methane - producing microbial communities will respond to climate change.

Based on those changes, you will see drastically different microbial communities.

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.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

Temperature - induced changes in a microbial community under autotrophic denitrification with sulfide — Michal Sposob — Process Biochemistry

«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Group.

* Dynamic changes in microbial communities during the bioremediation of herbicide (chlorimuron - ethyl and atrazine) contaminated soils by combined degrading bacteria — Jian Wang — PLOSone

In today's digest, check among many interesting articles: the evolution within human microbiome by T.D. Lieberman, unique microbial biodiversity residing in hadal trenches by L.M. Peoples, changes in community composition in coastal water following exposure to oil and oil dispersant by S.H. Doyle.

Preprint: Changes in the genetic requirements for microbial interactions with increasing community complexity — Manon Morin — bioRxiv

Jansson had long been curious about how these rapid temperature changes were affecting the underground microbial community, and whether these changes had any surprising side effects.

Metagenomics is the high - throughput sequencing of microbial community DNA extracts and, because it directly sequences this DNA, it can be used to characterize changes in the genes themselves and their function.

But Kan said more research is needed to understand the changes in microbial communities with biochar and to determine the optimum conditions for anaerobic digestion of manure before researchers can build a scale version that can be tested and eventually applied to scale for a working dairy.

By bringing together microbial ecologists, biogeochemists her group examines the influence of microbial communities on coastal ocean processes, especially in light of a changing climate.

Initial microbiome studies show that stress can result in changes to the gut microbial community, specifically bacteria in the genus Lactobacillus are consistently reduced.

A shift in the microbial community is associated with inflammation... It is interesting that the microbial community is actually changing with the disease state, which indicates that it is either responding to or contributing to the disease state.»»

While these levels remain unfortunately low, animal studies provide us with some clues as to how to increase the sulforaphane yield of these bacteria — feed them more.66 In just four days of a high broccoli diet, those bacteria that thrive on cruciferous vegetables grow in number, leading to a change in composition of the microbial community and an increase in opportunistic bacteria that turn our broccoli into cancer - fighting sulforaphane.

The results hold implications for land management, improved climate change models, and a better understanding of carbon cycling in soil microbial communities and how changes in global temperatures impact Earth's deserts.

The rare biosphere of the Lost City microbial community represents a large repository of genetic memory created during a long history of past environmental changes.

These include depletion of microbially accessible carbon pools, reductions in microbial biomass, a shift in microbial carbon use efficiency, and changes in microbial community composition.

After introducing the nanoparticles, they found changes in both specific characteristics of the microbial community and of the gut microenvironment.

Overall, the nanoparticles caused significant changes to the microbial community's phenotype, which may be related to overall health effects, concludes the study.