Sentences with phrase «microbial hosts of»

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What was our microbial - host relationship like for the duration of that experience?

The eight - member team concluded «that inter-host dispersal can alter the diversity and composition of microbial communities and overwhelm the effects of the host's innate immune system.»

Disruption of the circadian clock in the host alters the rhythms and composition of the microbial community, leading to obesity and metabolic problems.

In 2009 NIH geneticist Julie Segre published a study showing that physiologically comparable parts of the body host similar microbial ecologies, whereas contrasting areas — say sweaty underarms and dry forearms — have drastically different communities.

«The establishment of healthy microbial communities almost certainly requires chemical messaging between the species present in the human host,» says Texas A&M University biochemist Paul Straight, who studies interactions among bacteria.

In addition, changes in the microbial ecology of the mammalian digestive tract can harm the health of the host.

Depth horizons with functional genes indicative of methane - cycling and sulfate - reducing microorganisms are enriched in solid - phase sulfur and total organic carbon, host δ13C - and δ34S - isotopic values with a biological imprint, and show clear signs of microbial activity when incubated in the laboratory.

The approach of targeting a host response required by a pathogen to cause disease rather than targeting the microbial pathogen is gaining wide support in the medical community.»

They conclude: «We provide here tangible evidence of the impact of a healthy diet and a Mediterranean dietary pattern on gut microbiota and on the beneficial regulation of microbial metabolism towards health maintenance in the host.»

Multiyear incubation experiments with samples of host rock confirmed the microbial activities measured in situ.

They make a living by slipping inside their microbial hosts and hijacking their biochemistry to make many new copies of themselves.

«We have shown that the microbiome is a composite of microbial lineages, some that have cospeciated with us, and some that have been passed around from one host species to another,» he said.

In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

The microbial mass in and on a person may amount to just a few pounds, but in terms of genetic diversity these fellow travelers overwhelm their hosts, with 400 genes for every human one.

Microbial pathogens induce specific host responses or «RNA biosignatures» that can be identified using microarray analyses of blood leukocytes (white cells).

Lymphopenia is an abnormally low level of lymphocytes or white blood cells that manage microbial host defense.

In the moist, dark microbial rainforest of the intestine, hundreds of species of microorganisms interact with each other and with the cells of the host animal to get the resources they need to survive and thrive.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

University of California, Riverside researchers investigated whether microbiomes — microbial communities that are associated with larger hosts — might play a role.

The system is an evolutionarily ancient branch of the immune response and a key function is marking microbial and dying host cells for elimination.

In the deep gold mines of South Africa, and under the sea, at hydrothermal vents where breaks in the fissure of Earth's surface that release geothermally heated waters — hydrogen - rich fluids host complex microbial communities that are nurtured by the chemicals dissolved in the fluids.

Local - dominant communities consist of viruses that are influenced by environmental conditions, which affect their microbial hosts and indirectly alter the structure of the viral community.

Taking an ecological approach that considers the influence of anatomical and physiological features of the human host as well as the microorganisms» impact on both healthy and impaired individuals, the author surveys microbial communities that inhabit healthy humans.

This piggyback - the - winner model better explains virus - host dynamics during periods of fast microbial growth than the established kill - the - winner model, the researchers said.

The Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology is part of this Department, and its research focuses on microbial genetics, host - pathogen interaction, recombinant vaccines and vaccine immunology.

Now in experiments in mice reported this week in Cell Metabolism, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Centers have highlighted the ways in which the host's genes interact with the microbial genes to create such conditions, says senior author C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

These tools will enable new, experimental approaches for studying animal - associated microbial communities as ecosystems of interacting colonized hosts, and colonizing microbes.

The discovery of inexpensive ionic liquids that are compatible with, or improve the performance of, enzymes and biofuel and bioproduct microbial hosts and can be efficiently recycled

Maize Phyllosphere Microbial Community Niche Development Across Stages of Host Leaf Growth — Heather C. Manching — F1000 Research

Recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of life on our planet is microbial; however, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

These 2D cultures also abolish the need for intraluminal microinjection of single organoids and facilitate studies of host - microbe or virus interactions or the action of microbial enterotoxins because the luminal surface is fully exposed to the mucosal medium (22,23).

«Many key - biological questions require the analysis of hundreds or even thousands of individual cells; the high - throughput facilities hosted by the SciLifeLab are scaled to enable such analyses, and will offer this to the Swedish research community» says Stefan Bertilsson, Platform Director of the Microbial Single Cell Genomics facility.

SciLifeLab and the host universities want to support young researchers and further strengthen the research environment at SciLifeLab and are therefore now advertising eight career positions for research leaders, two at each of the universities, in the fields of microbial bioenergy production, applied physics, biomedical sciences, ecological genomics, RNA biology, molecular medicine and molecular biosciences.

Data collected by the Dawn spacecraft during its analysis of the dwarf planet Ceres has revealed the presence of organic molecules on the 590 mile (950 km) object, meaning it could potentially host microbial life, according to research published this...

At JBEI, in addition to her role as Vice President of the Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Aindrila leads the Host Engineering group to develop robust scalable microbial strains that show high tolerance and productivity during biofuels and chemicals production.

Genetic engineering of human antibodies; host defense mechanisms against microbial infection.

The Microbial Pathogenesis team, under the leadership of Professor Gordon Dougan, is focusing on the genetic analysis of the interactions between bacteria and their hosts to shed light on how humans and other animals respond to infection.

Host and microbial determinants influence Helicobacter pylori - induced gastric carcinogenesis in a murine model of hypergastrinemia.

Bienenstock points out that proving the existence of microbial influences on host behavior could upend basic assumptions about the control we have over our thoughts and actions.

Importantly, we will greatly expand our knowledge of oral microbial pathogenesis and also validate this approach to enable its application to other host - associated microbial communities.

Data collected by the Dawn spacecraft during its analysis of the dwarf planet Ceres has revealed the presence of organic molecules on the 590 mile (950 km) object, meaning it could potentially host microbial life, according to research published this week in the journal Science.

Using a combination of high throughput methods, we have been able to assess the ecology of microbes and functional pathways in these communities to correlate microbial and functional abundances of the gut microbiome with host genotype / phenotype.

The Laboratory of Microbial Immunity is part of this Department, and its research focuses on host - pathogen interaction, recombinant vaccines and vaccine immunology.

The innate immune system is a critical component of host defence against microbial pathogens, but effective responses require an ability to distinguish between infectious and non-infectious insult to prevent inappropriate inflammation.

This work consisted of lab - based experiments, studying the synergistic effect of mixed bacterial infections on model invertebrate hosts, and provided my first real exposure to the microbial world.

Prebiotics, or foods that escape digestion and are instead selectively fermented by beneficial bacteria in the colon, are a viable strategy for encouraging microbial diversity and in turn enhance the health of the host (45).

Again quoting from the free encyclopedia, «Probiotics are live microorganisms that may confer a health benefit on the host... «live microbial feed supplement which beneficially affects the host animal by improving its intestinal microbial balance»... commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures.»

As the rules / tenants of basic microbial ecology go, a reduction in fermentable substrates derived from carbohydrates means less energy sources for the microbes — who depend on host - derived substrates as well, as in the case of mucin - degraders like Akkermansia.

A GOOD TIP is to add a dash of cinnamon powder, its anti microbial properties add a host of benefits to the already amazing drink.

The microbial host defense can be weakened by secondary or acquired diseases (injury, endocrinopathy, cancer or co-infection) or primary inherited disorders that affect the barriers that keep infection out or functions of white blood cells.