Sentences with phrase «other microbiome research»

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It may indeed be the case that the evidence is not convincing, and considering how new microbiome research is, I would be surprised if any of the research could be considered «convincing» other than to simply say that the microbiome seems to be a really important factor in health and disease.

This is a highly limiting factor for research, because it complicates the annotation of data obtained by molecular techniques, and because it has been shown that gut microbiomes are to some extent specific to their host, and researchers have been using strains of other origin in mouse models.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

«As we start to look deeply into these other microbial communities in and on the body and see their importance, I think people will realize that there's more to microbiome research than the gut,» Kwon says.

Dr. Choudhry said further research would be needed to determine whether administration of probiotics could restore a healthy microbiome and reduce the risk of sepsis and other infectious complications.

Other investigators on this study were Caitlin E. Millett, graduate student, psychiatry and neural and behavioral sciences; Dahlia Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow, and Aubrey Reider, research assistant, in the Department of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University of South Florida, School of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasresearch assistant, in the Department of Psychiatry, and Shannon L. Kelleher, an associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, pharmacology, and surgery; Adem Can, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maureen Groer, University of South Florida, School of Nursing, and Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; Dietmar Fuchs, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; and Teodor T. Postolache, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasResearch, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and The Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education, MVM &mdasResearch and Education, MVM — Core.

So those two applications, using microbiomes to increase food production and make chemicals, are some of the other the blue - sky things that I can see coming out of microbiome research.

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

Impact of wastewater effluent containing aged nanoparticles and other components on biological activities of the soil microbiome, Arabidopsis plants, and earthworms — Jia Liu — Environmental Research

«Our research suggests that some people are more genetically susceptible to the impact of the microbiome than others, and treatments that change the microbiome will make a big difference in some but not in others,» says Kahn, who is senior author on the paper.

The future of microbiome research will be understanding the full suite of functions that microbes perform, how they influence each other and their environment, and how this power can be harnessed to improve human health and the environment.

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

While we still have a lot to learn about the complex bacteria found in our bodies, here's what she and other researchers on the pioneering edge of microbiome research have found:

Recent research shows that we may have an equally diverse and important microbiome in other parts of the body such as in the mouth and on the skin.

Scientists have found that people who struggle to lose weight have a similar microbiome, meaning they have higher number of certain bacteria and lower numbers of others.The exciting part of the research for weight loss resistance, autoimmune, and other unexplained chronic conditions is that when certain bacteria are added or increased, a dramatic shift in healing occurs.

In fact, exactly how the gut microbiome «interacts with foods to produce health conditions» is considered a new and dynamic area for further research by individuals on all sides of the red meat - colon cancer debate.10 For example, researchers at Harvard Medical School are studying fecal samples to assess the impact of red meat intake on gut microbes and their byproducts, which the researchers speculate may influence «biological pathways associated with colorectal cancer and other digestive diseases.»

The findings, they say, gave then a baseline for how a healthy dog microbiome should behave, and suggested dogs may be better subjects for research into human weight loss than other species that have been used for that purpose.