Sentence examples for microbiome from inspiring English sources
The word 'microbiome' is a correct and usable term in written English
It refers to the collection of microorganisms that live in a particular environment such as the human body or a specific ecosystem. Example: The human microbiome plays a crucial role in maintaining overall health and can be affected by factors such as diet, medication, and environment.
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The genetic information (genomes) of a microbiota.
This was not the case for those who already had a diverse microbiome, even when fed the same diet.Jeffrey Gordon, of Washington University in St Louis, says these two studies point to the importance of what he calls "job vacancies" in the microbiota of the obese.
This might be a different form of therapeutic diet or it might be some way of "rebooting" the gut microbiome directly, by adding missing species or subtracting unwanted ones.
Guts harbour many bacterial species in what is known as a microbiome.
The mice drinking the artificial sweeteners had higher levels of glucose in their blood than did their confrères who had been sipping water or ordinary sugar.To check whether the sweeteners were affecting the murine microbiome, the researchers dosed their mice with broad-spectrum antibiotics.
The microbiome, as the body's commensal bacteria are collectively known, is reckoned to have around 3m. Admittedly, many of those millions are variations on common themes, but equally many are not, and even the number of those that are adds something to the body's genetic mix.And it really is a system, for evolution has aligned the interests of host and bugs.
If an unusual microbiome leads to the gut needing extra sulphur, the brain may pay the price by developing abnormally.Whether this actually is a cause of autism is, as yet, unproven.
But there is little evidence that consuming probiotics has the tonic effect on healthy people that certain adverts suggest.A handful of doctors are taking a more fundamental approach to another microbiome-related disease, infection with Clostridium difficile.
At a meeting held last week in Bethesda, Maryland, a team of researchers organised by Jane Peterson and Lu Wang of America's National Human Genome Research Institute unveiled their plan for a Human Microbiome Project.
The database they tested it on is one being built up by the Human Microbiome Project, an international scientific collaboration which aims to catalogue the gene sequences of all bacteria found in humans.Their trawl turned up 3,118 "potentially useful" clusters of genes.
By the end of the year, the Human Oral Microbiome Project will succeed in giving names to the 600 or so different microbes that live in the mouth.
THE story of the microbiome the community of tiny organisms that coexist symbiotically with people and other animals gets weirder every day.
