Sentences with phrase «of microbiome communities»

The group solicits fecal samples from people all around the world in an effort to build a comprehensive library of microbiome communities.

While the UniFrac analyses we performed suggest independent associations between microbiome composition and both delivery mode and feeding method, the substantial overlap between the communities defined by both factors suggests that there are other important drivers of microbiome community composition that remain to be identified in future analyses.

Not exact matches

Fermented foods are having a big moment, prompted in part by a flood of new research on the human microbiome — the ecological community of microorganisms living in the human body — and the benefits

This community of bacteria is often referred to as a microbiome, and your whole system can go out of whack if your microbiome is off - balance.

Your baby's gut and microbiome are especially delicate — shifting communities of microbes that are still finding their tribe and carving out their home in your baby's digestive tract.

The midwifery and natural childbirth communities are abuzz with news of the premiere of Microbirth, a movie based on purported new medical discoveries about childbirth and the microbiome, the bacteria that normally live within the human intestines.

These complex sugars are indigestible by the infant but appear to play a powerful role in shaping an infant's gut microbiome, the fine - tuned community of trillions of microbial cells that, again, scientists are only beginning to understand.

Previous studies have shown that a high fat maternal diet during gestation and lactation has a long - term impact on the infant's gut microbiome (the community of bacteria living inside the human gut.)

Association between breast milk bacterial communities and establishment and development of the infant gut microbiome.

We characterized the intestinal microbiome of 102 6 - week - old infants and observed independent associations between stool microbial community composition, mode of delivery, and feeding method.

Overall stool microbiome community composition was characterized using generalized UniFrac analysis.30 Controlling for the effects of feeding method, delivery mode was strongly associated with infant gut microbiome composition (P <.001; Q <.001)(Figure 1A).

Although a few previous studies have found associations between infant feeding and intestinal microbiome composition,9 - 12, 14 to our knowledge, none has examined the relative contribution of combination feeding (breast milk and formula) alongside exclusive formula or breastfeeding to overall microbial community composition.

In pairwise comparisons of the 3 feeding methods, exclusive breastfeeding was associated with a microbiome community distinct from that of infants who were either exclusively formula fed (P =.04; Q =.05) or fed a combination of breast milk and formula prior to stool collection (P =.02; Q =.04).

There have been no long - term longitudinal studies of the effects of early feeding method on the microbiome, but early feeding has the potential for lasting effects on microbial community structure, 32 and these effects may be one mechanism for the health benefits of breastfeeding on childhood and lifelong health.

This is the seeding of the baby's microbiome, the community of «good» bacteria that we carry with us throughout our lives.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

Coauthor Alan Wolfe, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Loyola, overturned that dogma when his laboratory discovered the female urinary microbiome, and he has been at the forefront of isolating and characterizing individual bacterial species from this novel bacterial community.

During this developmental time, the bacterial communities covering the animal's surface change radically, until a stable composition of the microbiome finally forms.

Scientists attribute this heft to different microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that live in and on the body — in the C - section group.

The study adds to knowledge of how microbes colonize our skin and how much our microbial communities — or microbiomes — change when we contact other people or surfaces, whether it's a doorknob at home or medical equipment in a hospital.

The microbiome is like a fingerprint: every person's community of microbes is complex and unique.

The findings add strength and precision to a growing body of evidence that the makeup of bacterial communities in the vagina — the vaginal microbiome — may increase or decrease HIV risk for women, depending on which bacteria are there.

Shifts in the balance of the human microbiome — the microbial communities that call our bodies home — underlie persistent inflammatory disorders, chronic non-healing wounds, and scar formation.

«The more we know about the microbial communities in a given environment, the more likely it is we can reshape them to improve environmental and human health,» said senior author Rob Knight, PhD, professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering, and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.

(Gut bacteria are part of the microbiome, the larger community of microbes that exist in and on the human body.)

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

The plant's root microbiome is the unique community of micro-organisms living in and on plant roots.

By tracking changes to the microbiome through fecal samples, Alm hoped to learn more about how daily activities such as diet, sleep and exercise could be linked to changes in these communities of microorganisms.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

The research on the wild bee microbiome, or the community of microorganisms that live in the bee, follows similar work on the human microbiome that has surged in popularity in the past decade.

Collectively known as the microbiome, this community may play a role in regulating one's risk of obesity, asthma and allergies.

«Ochman and colleagues show that human evolution was accompanied by both a rapid divergence of the microbiome from the microbiome of apes, and a drastic loss of diversity of the microbial community,» says Thomas Bosch of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

University of California, Riverside researchers investigated whether microbiomes — microbial communities that are associated with larger hosts — might play a role.

In the handful that developed T1D during this period, the team observed a 25 % drop in community diversity (in other words, in the number of distinct species present in the microbiome) one year prior to the onset of the disease.

«Since we found previously that the gut microbiome — the communities of bacteria and other microbes living there — can influence liver disease risk, we wondered what effect gastric acid suppression might have on the progression of chronic liver disease.

This microbial community was very diverse, similar to other mammalian ocular microbiomes but with an unusually high representation of bacteria from a family not observed in other mammals.

Couples who enjoy at least nine «intimate kisses» a day are also more likely to have similar communities of bacteria in their mouths (Microbiome, doi.org/w7g).

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortimicrobiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project ConsortiMicrobiome Project Consortium, 2012).

We believe that to be successful, microbiome research will require a coordinated effort across the international community of biologists, chemists, geologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and clinical experts.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

For instance, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)(Turnbaugh et al, 2007; Peterson et al, 2009; Huttenhower et al, 2012) and MetaHIT (Qin et al, 2010) have generated maps of bacterial species abundances throughout the human body, reference genomes, and catalogs of more than 100 million microbial genes assembled from shotgun sequencing of in vivo communities.

A holistic understanding of the role of Earth's microbial community and its genome — its microbiome — in the biosphere and in human health is key to meeting many of the challenges that face humanity in the twenty - first century, from energy to infection to agriculture.

Future studies will characterize other members of the microbiome to understand how endometriosis alters these communities.

Actinobacterial community structure in the Polar Frontal waters of the Southern Ocean of the Antarctica using Geographic Information System (GIS): A novel approach to study Ocean Microbiome — P. Sivasankar — Data in Brief

«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Group.

Eoin Brodie seeks to reverse engineer naturally occurring microbiomes to understand the functional roles of the microorganisms within them and how their interactions with one another and the environment create stable microbial communities.

«I view the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge as a catalyst, a program that brings new approaches and new people into the field to rapidly increase our understanding of microbial communities» functions and mechanisms,» said Tim Donohue, Past President, ASM.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

While many people have become familiar with the community of microbes that live on us, with us, and within us — the human microbiome — the soil microbiome is lesser known but crucial for the fate of our planet.

«The recent emergence of faster and cost - effective sequencing technologies promises to provide an unprecedented amount of information about these microbial communities, which in turn will bolster the development and refinement of analytical tools and strategies,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.