Microorganisms in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) catalyze the conversion ... These studies show for the first time that Firmicutes can play a direct role in current production with acetate as the ...

The study suggests that Firmicutes bacteria ... Butyrate, in particular, has been shown to influence osteoclasts (cells responsible for bone resorption) and osteoblasts (cells responsible for ...

According to a study published yesterday in Cell Host and Microbe, researchers from the University of North Carolina and elsewhere have directly observed that bacteria from the phylum Firmicutes ...

Beneficial bacteria in the body roughly match human cells one to one* and in the gut ... investigated the group of bacteria known as the Firmicutes, which are dominant in the human microbiome ...

The research was published in the Sept 13, 2012 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe ... The researchers pinpointed one group of bacteria -- Firmicutes -- as instrumental in increasing ...

Furthermore, the scientists found that Firmicutes bacteria — more specifically ... genetically designed mice that lacked Rdh7 in the cells that lined their intestines. These rodents had ...

but only in the past decade or so have they come to realize that these microbes outnumber our own cells 10 to one. Rapid gene-sequencing techniques have revealed that the biggest and most diverse ...

Butyrate, in particular, has been shown to influence osteoclasts (cells responsible for bone resorption) and osteoblasts (cells responsible for bone formation). It helps to modulate the immune ...