Sentences with phrase «roles microbes play»

«While we are only just beginning to understand the complex roles microbes play in human biology, it is clear specific changes in microbial flora are associated with — and sometimes cause or cure — disease in the host,» said Pollard while explaining her research focus.

Researchers worldwide are discovering the specific roles microbes play in our health.

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.

Scientists have long thought that methane - producing microbes contribute to climate change but are slowly learning just how big a role these microbes play.

Not exact matches

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.

The findings suggest that these particles, which end up at municipal sewage treatment plants after being washed off in showers, could eliminate microbes that play vital roles in ecosystems and help treat wastewater.

Microbes may have played a role in making us, us.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from regulating plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact global climate.

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.

Researchers are still piecing together the complex role that microbes in and on human bodies play in human immunity, and how those microbes respond to stress.

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 a 1984 paper in The Lancet, the two first suggested that the microbe, which they then classified as a new Campylobacter species, might play a role in causing ulcers.

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.

Gut bacteria that make up the gastrointestinal microbiome play an important role in the metabolism of most chemicals humans ingest, motivating studies of microbe - driven breakdown of clinically important drugs.

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

But when the mice were given antibiotics for 4 weeks, glucose intolerance didn't occur, indicating that gut microbes may play a role.

There, the microbes play a role in digesting carbohydrates, or sugars.

The last several years have seen an explosion of interest in the constellation of bacteria that call the gut home, and these microbes appear to play a role in everything from immunity to metabolism to mood.

Next, studies involving germ - free mice (that is, mice that lack microbes) and other research uncovered ties between these microbes, our so - called microbiota, and health — with bacteria playing potentially key roles in immunity, obesity, and development.

MICROBES that live on our skin may play a role in eczema.

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.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

To see what role the body's own immune system played in fighting infection, compared with gut microbes, the team also studied two strains of mice that have impaired immune systems.

Primitive photosynthetic microbes were around and may have played a role in the generation of methane and minor usage of carbon dioxide.

An imbalance in the composition of microbes in our guts is now believed to play a role in a staggering array of ailments and disorders, from allergies to autism, obesity and depression.

Amid the trillions of microbes that live in the intestines, scientists have found a few species that seem to play a key role in keeping us healthy

Microbes have a profound effect on many human physiological processes, such as digestion and drug metabolism, and play a vital role in disease susceptibility.

Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.

However, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function — how they communicate with each other and their hosts, how they interact in complex communities, and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

Other sequencing studies have illustrated the critical role soil microbes play in breaking down pollutants.

«Microbes play a significant role in the health of the digestive tract and many digestive diseases result when the microbial environment is out of balance,» said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.

Recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of life on our planet is microbial; however, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

In a study published as a letter to the journal Gut, the team outline new evidence suggesting that the human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract collectively known as the gut microbiota.

If the hypothesis of a microbiome being present in the womb holds true, it may suggest that microbes are important in pregnancy and play a role in the development of an immune system.

Microbes play crucial roles in regulating global cycles involving carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus among others, but many of them remain uncultured and unknown.

June 20, 2016 Microbiota affect the rate of transplant acceptance and rejection Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that microbiota — the bacteria, viruses and other microbes living on the skin and in the digestive system — play an important role in the body's ability to accept transplanted skin and other organs.

Topics covered will include how the immune system and commensal microbes interact in the context of health and disease; how dendritic cells respond to infectious or inflammatory stimuli and the roles they play in the induction and polarization of adaptive immune responses against pathogens; how the innate immune pathways regulate inflammation at mucosal barrier tissue sites and how the macrophages are involved in intestinal inflammation.