Sentences with phrase «mouse fecal samples»

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When the research team took fecal samples from responding patients and transplanted them into germ - free mice — «essentially reconstituting the mice's gut microbiomes with a responding patient's microbiome,» she says — they discovered that the mice had better immunity.

When they analyzed microbes found in fecal samples collected from mice and humans at different times of day, they discovered rhythmic fluctuations in the abundance of microbes and their biological activities.

She knew that signals from the gut can affect how bone forms and gets reabsorbed, so her team took fecal samples from control mice in each of the three experiments and analyzed their gut microbes.

To test the theory, he and his colleagues analyzed bacteria in fecal samples from lab mice kept in normal 12 - hour cycles of light and darkness.

After introducing an E. coli strain containing the kill switch into mice, only 1 of 100,000 bacteria was viable in fecal samples.