Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.
The ultimate goal of the research is to learn whether insights from space bacteria could help cure diseases in humans.
The institute also has some prepared phage solutions that it has worked out will kill the bacteria that cause common diseases, such as E.coli, which causes stomach upsets.
"Antioxidants can protect us against the oxidative stress in our industrialised world, such as pollution, chemicals, viruses and bacteria, and consequently cardiovascular diseases and cancer, " said Professor Aviram.
But Blaser and others theorize that overuse of antibiotics may be causing higher rates of asthma, allergies and other diseases by killing useful gut bacteria.
The new technique, called metagenomics, for studying bacteria, viruses and other bugs, shows promise for studying human diseases.
With many diseases, the immune system is able to recognise the invading bacteria as foreign and launch an attack, sending special defence cells to latch onto and destroy.
The list, which includes five bacteria and one fungus, is described in the current issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, a medical journal, and will also be unveiled as part of a press conference today.
One can easily overcomplicated this disease or oversimplify it (in the case of the amyloid hypothesis), but there is often one causal factor (bacteria, virus, peroxynitrite, etc.) that explains the great majority of diseases and once you identify that factor and how to neutralize it, then you can successfully treat the disease.
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Even if the idea of a little diarrhea or a urinary tract infection does not faze you (both of which can be caused by E. coli), the problem is that as strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more commonplace in our lives, the less we are able to use the drugs to treat common human diseases.
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