Sentences with phrase «stable microbial community»

The team also shows how to identify bacteria most crucial for a healthy and stable microbial community, which could inform the development of probiotics and other therapies.

Eoin Brodie seeks to reverse engineer naturally occurring microbiomes to understand the functional roles of the microorganisms within them and how their interactions with one another and the environment create stable microbial communities.

Not exact matches

It is thought that the initial microbial exposure is important in defining the successional trajectories leading to more complex and stable adult ecosystems (10, 22), and additionally, initial communities may serve as a direct source of protective or pathogenic bacteria very early in life.

Two healthy Americans» microbial communities can differ by as much as 90 percent, but an individual's distinctive ensemble of bugs tends to stay stable over many years.

Biofuels Digest covered the recent study released by JBEI demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels.

Using the oral microbial community as a model system, we are applying functional genomic approaches including Stable Isotope Probing (SIP), metatrascriptomics and directed single cell genomic approaches to enable us to overcome this limitation.

In Gladden et al., we characterized twenty - one cellulose - degrading enzymes derived from a thermophilic microbial community and found that 70 % of them were stable and active in [C2C1Im][OAc].