There are only 10 - 15 beneficial
microbial strains in milk kefir made with powder compared with kefir made with live grains, not to mention it is more expensive too!
One of the biggest issues is many of
the microbial strains in a given person have never been sequenced.
Not exact matches
And herein lies a very broad and «mushy middle,» says McKenna, with the effect,
in many cases, being the same: «It's still using smaller - than - treatment doses, or sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics,» which creates a literal breeding ground for resistant
microbial strains.
Huge successes
in the isolation and cultivation of marine
microbial strains have been made by the EC - funded MaCuMBA (Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications) project, which aims to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation - dependent strategies.
«Our new method represents the first time that the mechanism by which one
microbial strain kills another can be determined without purifying the molecules involved,» said Poochit Nonejuie, a postdoctoral fellow
in biology who is also a co-author of the paper.
VTT has screened its own
microbial strain collection and the ale yeast
strains of commercial collections
in order to identify the properties that affect the beer fermentation process.
Algae and cyanobacteria are complicated critters: although they can grow
in open ponds, unwanted
microbial strains can easily contaminate the water and interfere with the growth of the fuel - making
strains.
«E. coli remains the workhorse
microbial host
in synthetic biology, and
in our study, using the ionic - liquid - tolerant E. coli
strain, we can combine many earlier discoveries to create an advanced biofuel
in a single pot.»
«The fact that we could alleviate inflammation by adding back a single key bacterial
strain, suggests that it could be useful as a probiotic for inflammatory diseases,» said Rolig, who, along with Eisen, is a scientist
in the National Institutes of Health - funded
Microbial Ecology and Theory of Animals Center for Systems Biology, known as the META Center, which Guillemin heads.
It sounds pretty weird, but that happens a lot
in the
microbial world, and it's the reason that disease forming
strains of E. coli evolved, and it's also how resistance evolves.
To meet that standard — known
in the industry as GRAS — companies start by selecting
microbial strains that are known to be nontoxigenic and nonpathogenic, then use those
strains to produce their products.
A team led by Jose García - Bustos of GlaxoSmithKline's molecular microbiology division
in Tres Cantos, Spain, published the annotated but incomplete genome of a virulent, antibiotic - resistant S. pneumoniae
strain in the June issue of
Microbial Drug Resistance.
They then inoculated soil - filled pots with these four
microbial samples and planted a common
strain of mustard plant, Boechera stricta,
in them.
CRISPR - Cas technology improves the
microbial production
strains used
in the bioproduction of chemicals and enzymes from fragrances and flavors to industrial cleaning and transportation.
That same year, he was recruited by Rhodia Food and worked at the R&D center
in Dangé - Saint - Romain, France, where he contributed to the development of molecular biology tools for bacterial
strain screening,
microbial identification, and typing of lactic acid bacteria and their bacteriophages.
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.
When the team first examined the
microbial composition of intestinal biopsies, they saw the bacterial
strains in the tumors and surrounding tissues of colon cancer patients differed from the bacterial
strains in the gut of healthy individuals.