Sentences with phrase «study microbe communities»
Its goals are to support microbiome research, get the public involved in the project, and develop new technologies to study microbe communities.
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Microbiome studies are demolishing the medical community's traditional «us versus them» attitude toward bacteria and other microbes.
But their study of 45 cystic fibrosis patients showed that when the respiratory tract contains a more diverse community of microbes, the patient is less likely to harbor Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a key pathogen associated with later stages of cystic fibrosis.
A new study coats babies born by C - section with the microbes in their mother's vagina, in an effort to alter the microbial community that's a part of them.
The study adds to knowledge of how microbes colonize our skin and how much our microbial communities — or microbiomes — change when we contact other people or surfaces, whether it's a doorknob at home or medical equipment in a hospital.
«The large communities of microbes residing on and inside us are critical to our state of health or illness,» said Borenstein, a University of Washington assistant professor of genome sciences and computer science and engineering, who conducted the study with his graduate student, Roie Levy.
«The database is a precious resource for the research community studying plant - microbe interactions as it is an unbiased way to identify potentially interesting genes involved in interaction with a plant — including many totally novel genes.
DeBruyn, who typically studies the communities of microbes in soils, is one of a handful of researchers probing such communities in and on cadavers.
While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.
Researchers studying salt crystals from Mexico have stumbled on a diverse community of microbes normally found in more hospitable surroundings — like dirt, for instance.
These tools will enable new, experimental approaches for studying animal - associated microbial communities as ecosystems of interacting colonized hosts, and colonizing microbes.
«Here we're cultivating an entire community of microbes to access enzymes that we couldn't get from isolates,» said study principal investigator Steve Singer, senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Biological Systems and Engineering Division and director of Microbial and Enzyme Discovery at JBEI.
Nov. 28, 2016 — A laboratory study of four animal species and their microbiota finds that each species hosts a unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness.
«Kangaroos are not mysteriously low methane - producing creatures, but herbivores with an active methane - producing microbe community,» said University of Zurich's Marcus Clauss, the study co-author.