Sentences with phrase «pylori sequence»
The researchers drew on H. pylori sequence data from 370 people in 27 populations, some from previous samples, others they collected themselves from Africans and American Indians.
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The availability of the H. pylori sequence is «great news,» says computational biologist Eugene Koonin from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.
Not exact matches
They used a genetic technique known as 16S rRNA sequencing to determine which bacterial species were living in the stomachs of healthy people, people receiving PPIs, and people with reduced gastric acid secretion as a result of H. pylori infection or autoimmune disease.
In tomorrow's issue of Nature, a team of scientists from The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, will publish the complete genetic sequence of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, spelling out the precise molecular composition of the organism's genes.
In December 1994, Genome Therapeutics Corp. in Waltham, Massachusetts, announced that it had sequenced a different strain of H. pylori.
In 12 biopsies of his remarkably well - preserved gut tissue (and stomach contents), they were able to isolate enough bacterial DNA to sequence the genome of H. pylori to relatively high resolution, as they report online today in Science.
They can also compare E. coli's genetic makeup with that of some of the other microorganisms sequenced so far — bakers» yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium responsible for most cases of intestinal ulcers; and Methanococcus thermoautotrophicum, an organism that thrives in hot springs, for example.
His Harvard Ph.D. included the first methods for direct genome sequencing, molecular multiplexing and barcoding, which led to the first commercial genome sequence — a pathogen called Helicobacter pylori.
Wilson's strain, known as J99, was the second H. pylori genome sequence published in the late 1990s.
It turned out that doctors had isolated H. pylori from Wilson's stomach during his initial visit, and a few years later, researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sequenced his organism.
Already during her PhD work (1992 - 1996), Nelson was involved in genome sequencing, among others of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that is considered to be a trigger for gastric ulcers.