Sentences with phrase «more microbial»

Yes, he says, our bodies do indeed consist of roughly ten times more microbial cells than human cells.

How do you know that more microbial diversity is better than less?

Studies of the human microbiome indicate the human body contains over ten times more microbial cells than human cells.

The gut houses ten times more microbial species than the overall amount of cells in the entire body.

It turns out that the more microbial exposure we have at a young age — and the more diverse our microbiome — the healthier we are long - term, because all those microbes we encounter in our early years train and challenge our immune system to respond appropriately, whether that means taking action against toxins and harmful microbes or laying low when confronted with harmless allergens.

Living in a household that hand - washes means family members are eating off of plates and cutlery that have more bacteria, and therefore more microbial exposure.

In fact, there are over 10 times more microbial cells in our bodies than human cells.

Indeed, the body hosts more microbial hitchhikers than it does human cells.

«We now understand that there are more microbial cells than human cells in the human body.

So although there are plenty more microbial species left to find, they may fill up known branches of the family tree rather than starting major new ones.

Teams are mining several other public data sets of metagenomes and already identifying tens of thousands more microbial species, says Hugenholtz.

«Things attributed to plant - plant interactions like competition and facilitation are likely under more microbial regulation than we have been giving them credit,» Rout commented.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

High up a Chilean volcano, there's more microbial diversity in bone - dry vents than icy patches - which could alter our search for life out in the solar system

In addition, some unlikely - sounding parts of the body — such as the back of the knee and the index finger — have far more microbial diversity than the gut.

Paradoxically, finding ways to encourage more microbial ecosystems in hospitals might help bring the number of infections down and is one of the BioBE team's primary challenges.

The death toll is predicted to rise as more and more microbial «bugs» evolve and become immune to existing drugs.

The human body has more microbial than human cells, but this rich diversity of micro-helpers that has evolved along with us is undergoing a rapid shift — one that may have very macro health consequences

Not exact matches

These revised Good Agricultural Practices will retain the earlier sections on aflatoxin risk while adding greater emphasis on managing the more acute microbial contamination risks.

DuPont Nutrition & Health addresses the world's challenges in food by offering a wide range of sustainable, bio-based ingredients and advanced microbial diagnostic solutions to provide safer, healthier and more nutritious food.

It contains the Australian import conditions for more than 20,000 plant, animal, microbial, mineral and human products.

No - tilled fields often have more beneficial insects and annelids, [29] a higher microbial content, and a greater amount of soil organic material.

Salt is used to help extend shelf life of edible products, process meat, control microbial growth and so much more.

It is thought that the initial microbial exposure is important in defining the successional trajectories leading to more complex and stable adult ecosystems (10, 22), and additionally, initial communities may serve as a direct source of protective or pathogenic bacteria very early in life.

«We found that babies who are fed only breast milk have microbial communities that seem more ready for the introduction of solid foods,» the study's lead author Dr. Andrea Azcarate - Peril, assistant professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, said in a press release.

Mars, the target of more than a dozen robotic missions to hunt for signs of microbial life, comes in third at 0.59.

«We need to know more about how temperature affects microbial death.»

In her doctoral research, she is investigating - more generally — biofilm formation and how plastic materials influence microbial processes in potable water.

Males had more diverse microbial communities in their cloacas.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

In findings published January 10 in Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteria.

The team found that the microbes lurking on the forearm, palm, index finger, back of the knee and sole of the foot were often more diverse than those in the gut, «traditionally considered to be very diverse», says David Relman, who researches human microbial ecology at Stanford University in California but was not involved in the research.

Microbial ecology also covers a much broader range of fields and so was more interesting to me.

«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.»

What's more, even small amounts of ethanol stalled the growth of microbial «weeds» that crowd out the beetles» food source, like the fungus Penicillium.

«This study suggests that your mouth is more like my mouth than it is like your armpit, in terms of its microbial composition.»

Some archaea — a domain of microbial life that was little understood when the Viking landers reached their destination — live in even more extreme situations, flourishing in temperatures far above the boiling point of water and surviving in thick brine.

The estimate is that normal, healthy adults have ten times as many microbial cells as human cells within their bodies; countless more populate the environment around us.

«Tiny «vampires»: Paleobiologist finds evidence of predation in ancient microbial ecosystems: Evidence dates back more than 740 million years.»

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

They compared the bacterial signature from the mice to a database of more than 250 microbial communities, including that of the objects» owners».

With more ice melting in this era of global warming, could we have an alien microbial invasion on our hands again?

«The next phases are a lot more soil biology, measuring changes below ground in fungal and microbial communities to get a handle on how they are responding to the warming.»

While microbial richness did not change with more modern home architecture, bacterial composition was markedly different.

The Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University also has a distinct, global work culture, thanks to director Jim Tiedje, who has hosted more than one hundred international students, postdocs, and visiting scientists.

Teaming up with fellow top employer Monsanto, Novozymes» scientists are developing microbial seed treatments that will yield more corn and soybeans, ideally with less chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or water.

«We added lower concentrations [of silver] to a more complex system, but rather than find no measurable effect, we found that the silver nanoparticles significantly altered the plant growth, microbial biomass and microbial activity.»

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.

(One of his more counterintuitive findings is that microbial communities are more biodiverse in the American Plains than in the Amazon rain forest.)

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.