Sentences with phrase «range of microbes»

While hydrogen peroxide may harm microbes causing your bad breath, again, it may also kill a broad range of microbes in your mouth.

Overall, there were fewer potentially pathogenic bacteria, and a far more diverse range of microbes in rural Africans who maintain a traditional lifestyle and consume traditional foods [114].

Exposure in early life to a diverse range of microbes that have evolved alongside humans for millions of years helps to develop a properly regulated immune system that does not overreact to harmless allergens.

The study also found that a lack of exposure in early life could not be compensated for by introducing the GF mice to a broader range of microbes in adulthood.

We will also have an exciting group of panelists to answer your questions on a range of microbe related topics!

Not exact matches

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

Samples will be taken of organisms ranging from microbes to ground beetles.

The microbes seemed to use at least two frequencies to communicate, one of which was in the ultraviolet (UV) range.

While one theory holds that the differences reflect species range — that maybe some species simply don't exist in some countries — our data finding microbes typical of the developing world at the mid-stage in Bangladeshi patients argue against that hypothesis.»

Scientists are sequencing a range of genomes, for example, to reconstruct the evolution of Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes bubonic plague.

The human body is a habitat for a huge range of harmless and beneficial microbes, which may be the key to fighting disease without antibiotics.

He was game to research the microbial communities he would encounter on his journey, and every day after he made what he called a «tripmark,» a tire tread imprint on a piece of paper with location information and notes (above), he filled three vials of dirt and sent them back to Nagler at the University of Innsbruck, providing her with a rare opportunity to examine many samples of microbes from a broad geographic range.

Seeing this microbe singlehandedly shift such a wide range of immune parameters calls for caution in interpreting personal DNA tests that claim to predict one's risk of a host of diseases from Alzheimer's to cancer.

Taken together, the animal data suggest that a range of different microbes can induce amyloid plaques to form, Tanzi says.

And if warming Arctic temperatures increase the area of snow algae's preferred habitat of just - below - freezing snow, the microbes might expand their range further.

A team of scientists has found that, thanks to opportunistic microbes, some mountain ranges may be sources, not sinks, of carbon.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

It found that for trees in the comfortable middle of their range, down near the base of a mountain, their offspring thrived nearby in the rich, microbe - filled soil collected right below their parent.

Diverse gut microbes are also thought to keep pathogens at bay simply by occupying a range of habitable niches inside us, leaving no room for anything else to grow.

To reproduce the range of reactions of the lowliest microbe would need a chemical works the size of Britain.

The inefficient technique won't supplant traditional mining, but the idea of using microbes as production facilities for a range of rare and difficult - to - produce materials has been gaining traction over the past several years.

A range of health issues have been linked to the ecosystem of microbes that lives inside us, and babies born by C - section are thought to miss out on bacteria from their mothers» vaginal canal.

Our bodies tolerate a wide range of resident microbes, but when these bugs grow out of control, the immune system hits them with a slew of fighter cells.

Each human harbors up to an estimated 100 trillion microbes — as many as 10 times the number of cells in the body — that undertake functions ranging from food digestion to strengthening of the immune system, said Knight, a professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.

The gene and protein sequences from these wide - ranging scans — the first of their kind — would, once decoded, illuminate what the microbes were actually doing within each ecosystem.

We envision that the broad - host range toolbox developed here will serve as a turnkey foundation for developing a robust set of metabolic engineering tools for other microbes of interest by simplifying and streamlining the process of screening for functional expression systems that operate within the microbe of interest.

Already, he knows that most IBD patients have a far smaller range of microbial species in their guts, compared to healthy people Stool transfers help restore that diversity and all the possibly beneficial chemical compounds that those microbes release into our bodies.

Doctors have used a range of techniques to transplant microbes into the gut of a sick patient.

The study authors said the same approach is being applied to a search for biomarkers across a wide range of biological systems, from other infectious agents such as Salmonella to soil microbes of interest in cleaning up toxic waste.

Tim Donohue, a UW — Madison bacteriology professor and director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, joined 17 other scientists from around the world and representing a wide range of disciplines today (Oct. 28, 2015) to lay out a case for an organized approach to harnessing the power of microbes to tackle many of the world's most pressing problems.

Only insects carry Wolbachia, but all animals have a range of symbiotic microbes.

Vakoch suggests that researchers should gauge how people might react to a range of instances in which some alien microbe might turn up.

Since most of us draw from such a small pool of food sources — and, therefore, ingest a very limited range of useful microbes — the need for probiotic supplementation may be dire.

But it» s estimated that the number of undiscovered species — primarily fish, fungi, insects, and microbes — ranges from ten million to more than one hundred million.