Sentences with phrase «microbial ecosystems»

That's very important to understanding the transmission of diseases in hospitals, and how to control and manipulate microbial ecosystems in our homes, offices, and public spaces.

Even though there's much left to learn, we've accepted the idea that a healthy microbial ecosystem is a cornerstone of internal health.

Both projects find that each person's body supports many different microbial ecosystems.

These probiotic strains show the ability to work together through multiple methods of action to benefit the intestinal tract and the entire microbial ecosystem inside our bodies.

Success will come from the integration of the 20,000 human genes, their 100,000 protein products, and the vast microbial ecosystem within the human body.

«More research is needed to assess whether graphitic carbon in the oldest sedimentary rocks belongs to these rocks and if it indicates the existence of microbial ecosystems on the earliest Earth,» lead author Papineau said.

«These results demonstrate that hydrogen - based methanogenic communities do occur in Earth's subsurface, providing an analogue for possible subsurface microbial ecosystems on other planets,» Chapelle and colleagues write in Nature.

Stefan Bertilsson studies microbial ecosystems in water and helps researchers to investigate the genetic material of single cells.

In order to maintain a healthy, well balanced microbial ecosystem, and as diverse as possible, you need to eat all types of prebiotics, from FOS and resistant starch to beta - glucans and pectin.

These holes potentially provide a way of looking at predator - prey interactions in very deep time in ancient microbial ecosystems.»

Professor Rainer Roehe from SRUC said: «The newly identified microbial species in the rumen of beef cattle will greatly improve our understanding of how the rumen microbial ecosystem works.

In 2007 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Human Microbiome Project, a $ 115 million initiative exploring the bugs that exist in the human body, whether people all share a core population of such organisms, and how changes in microbial ecosystems influence human health and disease.

Celecoxib supplementation impacts compositional and functional features of in vitro gut microbial ecosystem

Paradoxically, finding ways to encourage more microbial ecosystems in hospitals might help bring the number of infections down and is one of the BioBE team's primary challenges.

Prather, a 49 - year - old professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one of a growing number of scientists who suspect this largely unexplored microbial ecosystem might hold the answer to one of the great mysteries of the weather: Why do clouds produce precipitation when they do?

«The distal gut of a human is one of the densest microbial ecosystems on the planet,» says Stanford University microbiologist David Relman, a pioneer in human microbiome research.

Ultimately, this may enable the prediction of nutrient cycling in terrestrial microbial ecosystems, and perhaps even manipulation by adding specific metabolites.

The procedure, which has a 90 percent success rate, transplants the fecal microbial ecosystem from a healthy person into a sick one, often using a colonoscope for inserting the material, to restore a healthy equilibrium.

Meanwhile on the Pacific Coast, Jennifer Manuzak, a U.W. immunologist, administered a probiotic called VSL # 3 to uninfected monkeys to modulate a more favorable microbial ecosystem in the gut and improve immune function.

The researchers note that their computational approach can also be used to analyze microbial ecosystems found in soil, ocean, lakes and more to detect universal dynamics of microbes in these environments as well.

Because we share similar ecological networks, truly individualized or personalized therapies, which consider not only the unique microbial state of an individual but also the unique dynamics of the underlying microbial ecosystem, may not be needed in order to shape the healthy microbiome.»

Part of the challenge in finding Loki samples is that they tend to be few in number, a rare figure in local microbial ecosystems.

On Earth, simple microbial ecosystems thrive in the warmth of hydrothermal vents, where they can produce energy by metabolising hydrogen.

The next step, Segre says, is to investigate the relationship between microbial ecosystems and diseases such as eczema and psoriasis.

«Going into the study, we were sure that we would detect a functioning and viable microbial ecosystem in the permafrost soils of University Valley as we and others have done in Arctic and Antarctic permafrost, including in other sites at lower elevations in Antarctica.

Relatively rare in unpolluted seas it quickly comes to dominate the marine microbial ecosystem after an oil spill, and it can be found throughout the world's oceans.

But when his team compared DNA sequences from the bacteria in the rock samples with those available in databases, he discovered an entire microbial ecosystem consisting of a wide variety of both archaebacteria and eubacteria, common «modern» bacteria that normally take up residence in lush places such as cheese and humans.

The project provided seminal discoveries in subglacial hydrological and geological dynamics and also uncovered a diverse microbial ecosystem surviving without any light source thousands of feet below the ice.

Early childhood represents a dynamic period for the intestinal microbial ecosystem, which is...

Variability in carbon uptake and (re) cycling in Antarctic cryptoendolithic microbial ecosystems demonstrated through radiocarbon analysis of organic biomarkers — A. L. Brady — GE Biology

Today, microbes continue to evolve in response to an ever - changing environment, and microbial ecosystems still govern the biogeochemical cycling of the planet and profoundly affect the function of all other living organisms.

«Microbial communities for health and environment: Precise measurements of microbial ecosystems.»

This advice comes from Dr. Jack Gilbert, a scientist at the University of Chicago who studies microbial ecosystems and recently published a book called Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for your Child's Developing Immune System.

If it is the former, Green wants to find a way to create a healthier microbial ecosystem, not chase after the bad organisms one by one.

Yet industrialized farming practices have depleted a majority of the country's agricultural land of active carbon and a balanced microbial ecosystem.

Both projects found that each person's body supports many different microbial ecosystems, and that our microbiomes vary greatly from person to person.

«Tiny «vampires»: Paleobiologist finds evidence of predation in ancient microbial ecosystems: Evidence dates back more than 740 million years.»

The effects of high dose of two manganese supplements (organic and inorganic) on the rumen microbial ecosystem.

To alter the balance of the cow's rumen, the cow's gut microbial ecosystem?

In addition, NASA and the Sloan Foundation recently partnered on a program to support research on the microbiome of the built environment, or the microbial ecosystem of human - made environments — in this case, the space station.

But the underlying dynamics, the interactions between the microbes that shape these microbial ecosystems, may have something in common.

Sediment - covered basalt on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges constitutes most of Earth's oceanic crust, but the composition and metabolic function of its microbial ecosystem are largely unknown.

By disrupting that microbial ecosystem, blanket antibiotic dosing of babies, particularly preemies, may promote a host of problems later in life, such as asthma and obesity.

Some researchers suspect that even stress, such as an early separation from the mother, can also change a mouse's microbial ecosystem.

Researchers say a better understanding of the microbial ecosystems that release arsenite is an important first step in reducing the prevalence of arsenic contamination in groundwater.

Contact sports are an ideal setting in which to study how human to human interactions influence our microbial ecosystems.

The UMI would bring together researchers and representatives from public and private agencies and foundations to study the activities of Earth's microbial ecosystems.

The selected proposals include research on genetic switches to study microbial ecosystems, tools for deciphering multi-kingdom communication molecules, and a novel approach to map interactions between bacteria species.

Their ultimate goal is to understand what constitutes a healthy human microbial ecosystem and then to develop ways to keep it healthy and repair it when necessary.