Microbial in sentence

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What I'm not suggesting is that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials.

So if you look at the green data points, which is air that's outside, you'll see that there's a large amount of microbial diversity, or variety of microbial types.

So to understand why this was the case, we took our data and put it into an ordination diagram, which is a statistical map that tells you something about how related the microbial communities are in the different samples.

The data points that are closer together have microbial communities that are more similar than data points that are far apart.

When you look out on a clear blue ocean, you're actually gazing at a microbial soup full of vibrant life.

But microbial ecologists have desperately needed breakthroughs in technology, such as with this fast confocal, to make similar observations.

I hope you've enjoyed this short journey into our microbial oceans and that the next time you look out at the sea, you'll take in a deep breath of fresh ocean air and wonder: What else are all of the unseen microbes doing to keep us and our oceans healthy?

And so this microbial diversity differs between people, and what people have been thinking about in the last 10, maybe 15 years is, maybe these microbes, this microbial cloud in and on us, and the variation between us, may be responsible for some of the health and illness differences between us.

And somehow maybe the microbial community that's in and on me got off, and then this triggered some sort of immune response and led to me killing the cells that make insulin in my body.

And so what I want to tell you about for a few minutes is, what people have learned using DNA sequencing techniques in particular, to study the microbial cloud that lives in and on us.

And I can tell you all the details about the microbial study that we did there, but the reason I want to tell you this story is something really striking that they did at the beginning of this project.

They take the donor ileum, which is filled with microbes from a donor and they have a recipient who might have a problem with their microbial community, say Crohn's disease, and they sterilized the donor ileum.

So they actually switched to leaving some of the microbial community in the ileum.

And a variety of other studies have shown that the microbial community that lives in and on us helps in development of the immune system, helps in fighting off pathogens, helps in our metabolism, and determining our metabolic rate, probably determines our odor, and may even shape our behavior in a variety of ways.

And so, these studies have documented or suggested out of a variety of important functions for the microbial community, this cloud, the non-pathogens that live in and on us.

And excessive use of antibiotics, in particular in children, has been shown to be associated with, again, risk factors for obesity, for autoimmune diseases, for a variety of problems that are probably due to disruption of the microbial community.

So the microbial community can go wrong whether we want it to or not, or we can kill it with antibiotics, but what can we do to restore it?

Probiotics are one thing that you can try and do to restore the microbial community that is in and on you.

Premature infants have real problems with their microbial community.

So what can we do to restore our microbial community when we have thousands and thousands of species on us?

Now what these transplants, these fecal transplants, or the poo tea suggest to me, and many other people have come up with this same idea, is that the microbial community in and on us, it's an organ.

The microbial cloud, it is right in front of us.

And what we need now is to start thinking about this microbial community in the context of everything in human medicine.

Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.

So, for example, when you touch a pencil, microbial exchange happens.

I get asked all of the time from people, "Is it possible to really design microbial ecosystems?"

He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial landscape.

Well here's one by Jessica Green about the microbial ecology of buildings.

I've based my scientific career on using leading-edge molecular techniques, DNA- and RNA-based methods to look at microbial populations in biological reactors, and again to optimize these systems.

So what would a map of all these microbial communities look like?

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