Sentences with phrase «skin archaea»
But the dearth of studies on skin archaea is not just because of technical limitations.
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«We would like to investigate the physiological role of human skin archaea and how they differ from environmental archaea,» she said.
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So they conducted a pilot study of 13 volunteers and found they all had these archaea on their skin.
«Archaea might be important for the cleanup process under dry skin conditions,» said Moissl - Eichinger.
A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme - loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.
In addition to the influence of age, they found that gender was not a factor but that people with dry skin have more archaea.
Their study has been published in Scientific Reports (a Nature journal) in an article titled, «Human age and skin physiology shape diversity and abundance of Archaea on skin.»
«We found middle - aged human subjects have less archaea; therefore, the archaeal signatures have been overlooked in other skin microbiome studies.»
The microbiome is a community of healthy bacteria, viruses, archaea, and eukaryotic microbes that live on our skin and inside our body.