Sentences with phrase «played by these microbes»

Scientists have long known of the important roles played by the microbes on and in our bodies — our microbiomes.

The findings reveal the important role played by these microbes as they consume enough methane to influence the global levels of greenhouse gas.

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«To not consider how microbes influence soil carbon in offsetting ways, promoting losses through enhanced decomposition but gains by protecting soil carbon, would lead to overestimates or underestimates of the role soils play in influencing global climate.»

Bateson and Martin give many examples of people attributing major achievements to play, including Nobel laureates Richard Feynman and Alexander Fleming («I play with microbes,» he once said, by way of a job description).

In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.

In the current study, being published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the international interdisciplinary research team demonstrates that the transport of molecules across the blood - brain barrier can be modulated by gut microbes — which therefore play an important role in the protection of the brain.

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well - being, but one University of California, Berkeley, biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

By demonstrating that key individual species within the ecosystem can play a disproportionally large role in carbon cycling, this study helps bring us a step closer to understanding the function these microbes play in larger questions of climate warming and increased acidity in the ocean.

Arturo Casadevall, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Center for Immunological Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has been studying Cryptococcus for over 20 years, has compared the phenomenon with a card game where soil microbes are playing for survival, but by chance, a few hands confer «accidental virulence» on other hosts.

The most interesting aspect of the study, say the authors, is the discovery of a new, specialized function of a certain type of regulatory T cell, which is to enable microbes to play useful roles by keeping them from causing inflammation.

Inflammation plays a central role in many disease states, and his goal is to understand the normal mechanisms by which pro-inflammatory signals protect against microbes and discern how they go awry in disease states.

However, recent studies suggest that gut microbes play another crucial role in the human body by regulating circulating estrogen levels.

As our understanding of the profound influence of commensal microbes on the maturation of the immune system has grown, more recent iterations of this hypothesis have supported the idea that alterations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota induced by environmental factors (e.g., antibiotics, diet, vaccination, sanitation) play a central role in the regulation of allergic sensitization (5 ⇓ — 7).

By building raised beds which are NEVER walked on, heavily mulched and fed by top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig gardening say it protects vital soil life including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertilitBy building raised beds which are NEVER walked on, heavily mulched and fed by top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig gardening say it protects vital soil life including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertilitby top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig gardening say it protects vital soil life including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertility.