Sentences with phrase «microbial populations»

According to the study, eating a certain type of fiber can cause a shift in the gut microbial population which keeps the gastrointestinal tract healthy.

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

The resulting DNA dataset will help them understand how the building's various microbial populations function and interact.

Because stomach acid is critical for triggering digestive enzymes along with an escort called «intrinsic factor» for B12 absorption and managing local microbial populations.

If you have dogs, cats or even horses — your particular microbial population will reflect this.

The model also includes competition between different microbial populations.

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.

The gastrointestinal tract is a dynamic interactive barrier that normally segregates microbial populations from their cognate human hosts.

Microbial population dynamics of kimchi, a fermented cabbage product.

«By collecting information about microbial populations present in the sediments, we hope to gain information about how and when bacteria do that, and how bacteria couple subsurface carbon chemistry to uranium behavior.»

«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.»

This differentiation can not be observed when microbial populations are analysed, as was the case so far.

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.

At the same time, it does represent a step toward that effort, by demonstrating how microbial populations can predict metabolite abundances — even before fermentation.

Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

The researchers also investigated different mechanisms that could be behind the changing microbial populations and found evidence of the action of four ecological processes: ingestion of bacteria on food, the presence of abnormal oxygen levels in the gut, the availability of carbohydrates and other nutrients, and the presence of bacteria - infecting phage viruses.

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

Natural seeps are abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and help create a chemically unique habitat where microbial populations can flourish.

Researchers found a role for the bacterial enzyme urease in the development of microbial population imbalance and inflammatory bowel disease.

DNA sequencing - based microbiome profiling studies have demonstrated that the lower respiratory tract harbors complex microbial populations.

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

Each room in your home is a different ecosystem teeming with diverse microbial populations that sometimes overlap.

And while millions of dollars go into hospital - associated pathogen research every year, until now no one had studied the hospital as an ecosystem, looking at the biodiversity of the total microbial population instead of just pathogens in isolation.

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.

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.

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.

They are hopeful that the technique, which is still in the research and development stage, can help understand issues involving microbial populations and their virulence potential in buildings where humans spend most of their time.

«Until now, none of the estimates of global hydrogen production sustaining deep microbial populations had included a contribution from the ancient continents.

«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.»

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.

Microbial population explosions can take many forms — algal blooms in the ocean and in lakes, fungal blights in soil and bacterial infection in humans are just a few examples — and how viruses respond to this rapid microbial growth has long interested ecologists.

«Viruses «piggyback» on host microbes» success: Rather than killing off their hosts in a rapidly growing microbial population, viruses opt to rise with the tide.»

The results matched their field sampling, with virus numbers staying relatively low even as microbial populations bloomed.

That would mean, even though you can temporarily introduce new yeast and bacteria through your diet or reduce your existing microbial population with antibiotics, your microbiome will likely bounce back to its set profile.

«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.

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.

Tea tree essential oil on the other hand, is skin - kind yet effective against both yeasts and bacteria, helping to reduce the overall microbial population.

The released sulfate can then stimulate microbial populations, producing more methylmercury that can make its way into downstream aquatic environments.

Generally, soil under ZT is moister with organic matter and soil microbial populations concentrated in the top layer of soil, Lemke et al. (1995).

Frequent douching can result in the vagina's normal microbial population having difficulty reestablishing its population.

Instead of any one particular organism associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, they observed significant shifts in microbial populations between healthy subjects and those with disease, including a loss of normally protective bacterial populations.

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

These studies have found that different pathophysiologies — such as pathogenic bacteria infections, immune response or obesity, among others — can be segregated based on metabolic patterns, i.e., based on the composition of the chemical species found in the gastrointestinal tract, while they can't when intestinal microbial populations are analysed.

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.

David Mills, senior author on the new study, says he and his collaborators wanted to know if the microbes in must — as well as in later stages of fermentation — could be used to describe a winery - specific microbial population.