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«We know more
about soil
microbes than we do
about those on our own body,» Bohannan
says.
«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut
microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,»
said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking
about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.
«When we know more
about all these
microbe, herbivore, and plant interactions, we may be able to manipulate the system to make the plants manipulate the bacteria,»
said Felton.
«There's a lot of buzz
about whether we can measure conductivity in the sediment and relate it to biology and
microbes, but there has never been the proof,» Reguera
says.
About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut,
said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of
microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.
«If the efficiency of the extracellular enzymes increases, for example, with an increase in temperature, our study shows that the number of lazy
microbes also increases, so that the overall speed of decomposition remains
about the same,»
says IIASA researcher Oskar Franklin, who also contributed to the study.
«The unique thing
about this model is that it simulates the life and death of individual microorganisms in a tiny space, and can encompass the positive and negative influences between neighboring
microbes,»
says Kaiser.
In the future, the knowledge
about beneficial fungi could also help to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture, the scientist
says: «Inoculants based on these beneficial
microbes help to «immunize» the plants against pathogens and pests, thereby reducing yield losses due to infections, in a sustainable way.»
«This study takes us a step further [than the human microbiome], and tells us
about the necrobiome, the collection of
microbes on a dead body,»
said Dr. Robert DeSalle, Curator of Molecular Systematics at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not affiliated with the CUNY study.
At the time, creating specific mutations in a «weird
microbe» like Rhizobium posed a big challenge, Ruvkun
says, because scientists knew less
about its genetics than that of classic research organisms such as Escherichia coli.
«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to
microbes,» he
says, adding: «The ability to directly watch
microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only
about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on
microbes.»
I'm at
about Chapter 3, and I
said, «Hey, this book sort of reminds me of
Microbe Hunters.»
«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.
It
said that routine monitoring was not recommended or necessary, and, most of all, that concerns
about these chemicals «should not divert the attention and valuable resources of water suppliers and regulators» from pathogenic
microbes and chemicals such as lead and arsenic.
Any difference in the mouth microbiomes of people with HIV and those without the virus could give scientists clues
about how a healthy population of oral
microbes might help keep Candida in check,
says medical mycologist Mahmoud Ghannoum of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
«The system is not designed to do anything
about environmental
microbes that don't make people sick,» Dantas
said.
Ancient lake could have held life, rover team
says The scientists behind the Curiosity rover mission on Mars have fleshed out their findings
about an ancient lake that they now
say apparently had everything needed to sustain
microbes that can live off minerals.
«It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are
about ten resident
microbes,»
says Michael Pollan in a brilliant 2013 New York Times Magazine essay.
Scientists must think
about which
microbes are «making the methane [and] what does that
say about the isotopic signature of the methane in the atmosphere,» McCalley told Eos.