Sentences with phrase «study microbial population»

She is currently working on the development of immobilized microbial communities from deep sea ecosystems to study microbial population dynamics during continuous cultures in bioreactors.

Not exact matches

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

Compositional studies alone do not explain how the various microbial species interact, cooperate or compete to form, maintain or alter their populations.

Tweaking the gut's microbial population can affect anxious behaviors, animal studies have shown, which suggests that gut bacteria could play a causal role in anxiety.

«If we want to make good decisions about which coral populations are more resilient and which ones need more help, this study suggests that we have to take their associated microbial communities into account,» she added.

Studies conducted over the last decade or so have shown deep connections between disease and dysbiosis, which is an imbalance in gut microbial populations.

«Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease: Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.»

The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.

His team hypothesized that they'd find greater microbial diversity in the Inuit study population.

«But what this study does is allow us to explore further, now that we're clearly changing the gut microbial population and have new bugs that are more prevalent in mice with altered amyloid deposition after antibiotics.»

In a recent study by Helmsley grantee the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, researchers identified how the intestinal microbial population of Crohn's disease patients differs from that of individuals free of inflammatory bowel disease.

Prof. Ghedin studies microbial and viral population structures, and how these impact host response to infection and emerging infectious diseases.

This study aims to collect microbial samples from surfaces, air, staff, and patients from the University of Chicago's new hospital pavilion in order to better understand the factors that influence bacterial population development in healthcare environments.

One study demonstrated that the skin of healthy dogs has a much higher diversity and population of microbial cultures than that of dogs with skin allergies.2