Sentences with phrase «microbial environment in»

Factors like pets, access to outdoors, and houseplants all changed the microbial environment in a home.

«The Human Microbiome Project will help us better understand the microbial environment in the gut, as well as provide us with the tools and technology to expand our exploration into this field of research.»

The new research, presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich, suggests that exposure to the microbial environment in animal skin and fur could have a protective effect against asthma and allergies.

Evidence also suggested that the microbial environment in the home during infancy may be associated with asthma risk.

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(263) Biodegradable is defined in the standard as «capable of microbial decomposition within 24 months in soil (with the exception of plant biomass), one month in aerated water, two months in anaerobic water, with minimal impact on the environment» (see 3.10 in CAN / CGSB -32.310).

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and StreptococcuIn a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and StreptococcuIn a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcuin Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.

«Perhaps even more exciting are the implications of the study for microbial ecology, since it suggests our unique microbial residents are tuned to the environment of our body — our genetics, diet, and developmental history — in such a way that they stick with us and help to fend off less - friendly microbial invaders over time.»

However, the rapid burial of Dakota in a waterlogged, low - oxygen environment allowed fossilisation to outpace the normal processes of microbial decay, preserving areas of soft tissue.

Bouquet, a student in the joint doctoral program between UTSA's Department of Physics and Astronomy and SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division, explained that microbial communities sustained by H2 have been found in extreme environments on Earth.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Jackson was studying microbial communities around the world, including in the Amazon, when he realized that the ecological balance in those environments was not so different from the balance present in a healthy human gut.

Recent advances in bacterial identification and sequencing have allowed for more and more environments, including our skin, mouths and guts, to give up the secrets of their microbial biodiversity.

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 statioIn 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 statioin this case, the space station.

If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.»

«Understanding how our cells interact with our environment and in this case our «microbial self» is increasingly recognized to be important for our understanding of health and disease.

Stefanie Lutz, a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invEnvironment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invenvironment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invertebrates.

There is a much overused phrase in microbiology — «everything is everywhere, but the environment selects» — which suggests that microbial populations are not localised but geographically ubiquitous, and unlikely to be at risk.

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.

The lineages of these groups are not restricted to extreme habitats, as was once thought common for archaeal species; rather, archaea are widespread and occur in all thinkable environments on Earth, where they can make up substantial portions of the microbial biomass.

Researchers noticed this pattern after sampling the microbial communities found in the saliva, skin and feces of 37 Komodo dragons across 12 U.S. zoos as well as the environment of two of the 12 enclosures.

But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.

Their findings, published in The American Society of Microbiology's mSystems journal, say that the pattern of microbial exchange is «likely circular in nature,» meaning that captive dragons contribute microbes to their environment, and reacquire these same microbes from their environment, repeating this exchange in an ongoing cycle without other external sources of microbial diversity.

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity levels and support health and risk assessments.

«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.

Knowing how giant viruses impact microbial survival and community interactions is relevant to U.S. Department of Energy missions in bioenergy and environment.

The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the Martian environment, combined with findings from the 1976 Viking mission, have led to the conclusion that existing life on Mars is a possibility that must be considered, as presented in an article in Astrobiology.

This was the case even in an environment of plentiful phosphate — where phosphate competition wouldn't have been a factor — hinting that something else was happening in the plants to trigger the growth of different microbial communities.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

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.

Principle topics of the ocean margin systems workshop were microbial systems in sedimentary environments, fluid flow and subsurface material transport, margin building / regulating processes, and benthic population dynamics and relationships to sedimentary settings.

«Linking microbial, immune environment in semen to HIV viral load, transmission.»

This indicated that the soil metabolites available in the treated soil allowed for a different microbial environment that presumably acted to enhance plant growth.

The research team's findings describe a totally new pathway for the microbial production of methane in the environment, that is very unlike all other known pathways.

Aeolian deposition is responsible for sorting and transporting lithogenic matter (primarily sand - and clay - sized particles), containing microbial cells from the surrounding desert environments (soils, ephemeral streams, glaciers, etc.) onto the ice covers that range in thickness from 3 to 20 meters.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

Gevers agrees; to find out, scientists could inoculate mice that have been raised in a completely sterile environment, allowing them to test the effect of individual microbial species.

Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.

The studies open up new opportunities to uncover microbial genomes from other environments, revealing how microbes alter global carbon and nitrogen cycles, how microbial metabolism evolved, and how so many different kinds of microbes can coexist, says biological oceanographer Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

While a core microbiota of the same bacteria was present in all areas of the mock - up spacecraft, the authors noticed specific bacterial signatures for each individual area, or module, indicating that — much like in other indoor environments — microbial presence is associated with human presence as well as the type of activity that an area is used for.

«We can use these molecules to create predictive models and see how changes in the environment altered microbial growth patterns and then, in a feedback loop, how these growth patterns affect the environment — how they create a model of ecological change.»

Curiosity is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding chemical evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, in ways that affected their potential favorability for microbial life.

This research makes important contributions to the fields of microbial diversity in extreme environments and bioremediation.

«This discovery is a quantum leap forward in our understanding of microbial PCB dechlorination and hence open up new possibilities of developing more effective ways of destroying PCBs in our environment,» said Assoc Prof He.

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.

Despite the importance of the skin ecosystem to human health and well - being, we know very little about the forces that shape microbial structure and composition in the skin environment.

If we can collect a sample, we can determine whether microbial life exists in order to understand how it evolved and how it continues in this cold environment with no sunlight or energy.»

Effects of thinning intensity on understory vegetation and soil microbial communities of a mature Chinese pine plantation in the Loess Plateau — Peng Dang — Science of The Total Environment