Sentences with phrase «role of these microbes»

Taking this research forward, the scientists want to investigate the role of these microbes in regulating the immune system, metabolic activity and digestive systems of the baby's body.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

The role of microbes in biological functions was virtually ignored, and it would be almost 200 years before these organisms would garner further serious attention.

The research, led by the University of Leeds and published today [12 June] in the journal FEMS Microbiology Ecology, will help improve climate change models that have previously neglected the role of microbes in darkening the Earth's surface.

Understanding the role of the microbes that live in the gut and help process nutrients not only promises a fuller understanding of the link between genes, diet and disease, but may also be a pathway to pinpointing the genes responsible for conditions like diabetes.

The role of microbes in snowmelt and radiative forcing on an Alaskan icefield.

«This work adds a significant piece to our understanding of the role of microbes in shaping animal ecology and behavior, and raises new questions about these relationships and how to exploit them for managing pests — hallmarks of excellent research,» said John Ruberson, head of the entomology department.

The new research underscores the tremendous diversity of microbes in the open ocean, and it could help uncover the key roles of microbes in controlling the global environment.

Additional research is needed to determine the role of microbes used in production of dairy products, and their impact on MK content.

In recent years, scientists have become aware of the important role of microbes existing inside the human gastrointestinal tract, called the gut microbiome.

Some of the most profound insights in the crucial role of microbes for human well - being have emerged from analyses of the microbes on and in our bodies — their genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes and metabolomes.

«This initiative is an important step to expand our understanding of the pivotal role of microbes in the ecosystem,» said Lynn Enquist, ASM President.

A second area focuses on the role of microbes in our intestines (called gut flora) in heart disease.

Within MIT, Dr. Erdman is head of the Erdman Laboratory, which is an NIH - funded research program focused on the roles of microbes in inflammatory disorders, particularly obesity and cancer.

Dr. Alegado's lab investigates the role of microbes across spatial and temporal scales.

Science is just starting to understand the role of microbes in skin health and I suspect that we will see a rise in skin - biome related companies and products in the next few years.

As is the role of opportunistic pathogens in shifting microbial communities and the role of microbes in gut permeability.

The USDA in 1910 was trying to be scientific, but despite having gained a basic understanding of the roles of microbes and viruses, the USDA scientists still understood disease transmission only slightly better than the judges at witch trials.

Whether you decide to take the role of a microbe inside a plant in the desert, or a star in the furthermost galaxy, each layer of the game is coated with ambience which takes the simulation even further into the limitless boundaries of each world.

That means you studied soil science when soil scientists barely knew the difference between dirt and soil and sure as shark chum didn't understand the role of mycelium, the true roles of microbes, etc..

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The study provides another example of the role of the microbiome — the collection of microbes found in and on the body — in health and disease.

Better understanding of gut microbes and their role in health will lead to more science - driven product development.

Research also says that the baby microbiome (the little ecosystem of microbes living in baby's gut) plays a role.

First of all, your baby's «gut» starts developing in utero and once baby is born, about three days after birth, she will be exposed to trillions of microbes that will eventually play a critical role in her health.

Understanding the role of each group of microbes in the breast milk would also provide leads to the pharmaceutical industry in harnessing microbial power to boost our immune system from various illnesses and allergies.

Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

The goals of the study, published April 11, 2018 in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, were to find out if microbes were required for digestion and absorption of fats, to begin to learn which microbes were involved, and to assess the role of diet - induced microbes on the digestion and uptake of fats.

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Bacteria make up the vast majority of microbes in the adult body, so this finding suggests that fungi may play an unexpectedly important role both in the early development of microbial communities and in the health of infants.

Earlier studies have linked the human microbiome — that is, the collection of microbes living in and on the human body — to a variety of health conditions, but little is known about the role of the penile microbiome as it relates to men's health.

«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.»

The innate immune response constitutes the first line of defense against invading microbes and plays a role in inflammatory disease.

With the rapid rise of esophageal adenocarcinoma paralleling the disappearance of the microbe in developed countries, a slew of studies have emerged over the past decade examining the potential role of H. pylori in preventing this cancer.

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

If researchers can get a handle on the gut microbiome's role, Baranzini can imagine a day when probiotics can be used to shift the composition of microbes in the gut to reduce inflammation.

Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes in the gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the microbiome.

Gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson's - like movement disorders in genetically predisposed mice, researchers report December 1 in Cell.

«We have found groups of genes that may play a role in shaping the development of imbalanced gut microbes.»

Finding that limit — the goal of the 62 - day T - Limit campaign, part of the International Ocean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cycles.

«Microbes involved in the nitrogen cycle, which are still active today, could have played a major role in calcite precipitation because of their ability to increase the pH,» explains Dr Stinnesbeck.

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 role of specific gut microbes in shaping body composition remains unclear.

Dusty air blowing across the Pacific from Asia and Africa plays a critical role in precipitation patterns throughout the drought - stricken western U.S. Today, a scientist will present new research suggesting that the exact chemical make - up of that dust, including microbes found in it, is the key to how much rain and snow falls from clouds throughout the region.

Microbes that could not be cultured previously, and those that form only a negligible percentage of a sample, were revealed, along with their genomes and their roles in the community.

The findings are the first to tie together the roles of genes and beneficial microbes in the inflammatory bowel disease, says biologist Brett Finlay of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who was not involved in the new work.

But the researchers think the cowlike microbes may have a functional role, digesting the carbohydrates in whales» diets, including a complex starch called chitin that makes up the shells and other body parts of crustaceans.

To find out just what role they play, evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf of the University of Colorado, Boulder, set out to survey the microbes in, on, and around corpses.

The findings strengthen a growing body of evidence that the microbes of our intestines play an important and unexpected role in an array of maladies.

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.