Sentences with phrase «microbial population of»

Low - oxygen bottom waters mean that the microbial population of the deep ocean is limited in its ability to oxidise photsynthetically produced organic matter back to CO2; thus the sediments accumulate a higher proportion of organic matter.

«Because most UTIs in dogs are believed to be ascending infections, maintenance of a healthy microbial population of the vestibule and vagina may be important in female dogs.

In a recent study by Helmsley grantee the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, researchers identified how the intestinal microbial population of Crohn's disease patients differs from that of individuals free of inflammatory bowel disease.

«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

Diversity of root - associated microbial populations of Tamarix parviflora cultivated under various conditions — Marketa Polivkova — Applied Soil Ecology

* Microbial Populations of Stony Meteorites: Substrate Controls on First Colonizers — Alastair W. Tait — Frontiers in Microbiology Extreme Microbiology

Not exact matches

He considers how the microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child may play a crucial role in regulating health.

The microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child play a crucial role in regulating health.

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.

Using state - of - the - art, high - throughput sequencing technologies, the team also analyzed the gut microbial population structures of mothers and their offspring.

The report also finds what appear to be consistent differences between the gut microbial population — also called the microbiota — of individuals in developed countries like the U.S. and those the developing world and provides some of the most complete evidence that the gut microbiota usually return to normal after cholera infection.

Similarly, sustaining microbial populations is central to the R&D activity of Bluewater Bio, a wastewater treatment specialist.

«That suggests a microbial expansion,» he adds: The growth of microbial populations is among the few phenomena capable of increasing carbon production exponentially, or even faster.

The research showed that, compared to pure snow and ice, the reflectivity of the glacier (known as the «albedo») can be reduced by up to 80 % in places where coloured microbial populations are extremely dense, leading to the darkening of the glacier surface.

Using antibiotics to tamper with this complicated and little - understood population could irrevocably alter the microbial ecology in an individual and accelerate the spread of drug - resistant genes to the public at large.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

The research examining the differences in infant gut microbial populations arising from differences in human milk oligosaccharides (sugars), «Maternal Fucosyltransferase 2 Status Affects the Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today in the journal Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journal.

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.

«We have become increasingly aware of how crucially important a healthy gut microbial population is for a well - functioning immune system.

For the researchers, says Mathis, another important conclusion can be drawn: «If you want to understand the behaviour and fate of microbial populations, it's sometimes necessary to analyse every single cell.»

But the staghorn coral was not so lucky — it experienced a decline in microbial diversity and increases in populations of Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas bacteria, both of which are familiar human pathogens.

Over the past several years, Metcalf and colleagues have developed a «microbial clock» to measure postmortem passage of time by genetically sequencing the population of microbes on the skin and in the surrounding soil.

And the rise and fall of microbial populations follows a reliable course as a corpse decomposes, even though the actual pace of activity varies widely due to temperature and other environmental factors.

The researchers analyzed DNA fragments in the samples to show that the microbial populations varied from region to region, even on the same variety of grape.

In 2013, he and his collaborators showed that microbial populations on the surface of wine grapes vary from region to region, in patterns consistent with climate variation.

«Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease: Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.»

The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.

The researchers used 16s rRNA sequencing to characterize the microbial population in stool samples donated by 19 inhabitants of the Hamlet of Resolute Bay, a Canadian Arctic village on the southern end of Cornwallis Island accessible only by plane (and, when the sea ice breaks up, by boat).

«There's tons of questions around just how this whole system might control microbial populations in the gut, which have increasingly been shown to be important in obesity and diabetes, and all sorts of human conditions.»

«Advances in genetic sequencing technologies now allow us to find patterns in large, diverse populations of microorganisms, see how they associate with specific individuals, and understand how they change over time in a way we couldn't just a few years ago,» said Knight, who leads the UC San Diego Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative.

The infinite variety and persistence of junk content makes it the equivalent of an electronic microbial population that reproduces at an exponential rate.

It has generally been assumed that this growing population of viruses, in turn, kills more and more microbes, keeping the microbial population in check.

For decades, most researchers have assumed that during microbial population booms, their viruses take advantage of the opportunity to multiply by killing the abundant microbial winners.

Thomas Mitchell - Olds of Duke University wanted to see if the microbial populations in and around plants» roots could affect the way the plants matured.

Therefore, we propose to perform metagenomics and transcriptomics analysis on vaginal samples from patients with high - and low - risk HPV phenotypes to investigate the microbial population dynamics and genomic diversity of the vagina during various stages of HPV infection compared to uninfected individuals.

By joining American Gut, your sample and diet and lifestyle data will be merged with thousands of other folks and will allow us to explore population - level patterns that will hopefully lead to a better understanding of why we carry the microbes we carry and what aspects of our behavior and disease state drive these microbial patterns.

This is in contrast to conventional biochemistry and molecular biology, which focuses on analyses of whole tissue samples and whole microbial populations or communities.

«A key part of the research will be the use of proteomics to determine the metabolic status of subsurface microbial populations during biostimulation,» added Long.

Until the 1990s, knowledge of microbial populations was determined using assays that relied on the growth of the microbe.

Population - Specific Responses to Interspecific Competition in the Gut Microbiota of Two Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Populations — Xiaoping He — Microbial Ecology

Here, I developed a strong interest in a variety of topics that center around this theme, ranging from the origin of the eukaryotic cell to endosymbiosis and evolution of whole microbial populations.

Read more about the analysis of microbial populations in Crohn's patients at scientificamerican.com.

In order to be able to characterize this population of uncultivatable bacteria, CNL's BBF lab has developed a series of methods based on microbial genetics that do not require the bacteria to actually be cultured.

Improving Understanding of Microbial Populations in Urinary Tract Infections to Develop Better Treatments

Here we undertake a synthesis of central concepts for evolutionary predictions, based on examples of microbial and viral systems, cancer cell populations, and immune receptor repertoires.

This study aims to collect microbial samples from surfaces, air, staff, and patients from the University of Chicago's new hospital pavilion in order to better understand the factors that influence bacterial population development in healthcare environments.

She is currently working on the development of immobilized microbial communities from deep sea ecosystems to study microbial population dynamics during continuous cultures in bioreactors.

A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better way to diversify your microbial ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals as often as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.

This indicates they may be promoting different species of bifidobacteriaand probably other gut microbes within the complex gut microbial population.