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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers writing in the new online science and biomedical journal eLIFE say parents share more bacteria with family dogs than children. The team, led by the University of Colorado-Boulder, looked at the types and transfer modes of microbes from the guts, tongues, foreheads and palms of 60 American families and their canines. In all, they sampled 159 people and 36 dogs. Researchers swabbed various parts of the body to obtain...
For the first time a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health, including a University of Colorado Boulder professor, has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans. The team made up of 200 researchers from the Human Microbiome Project Consortium, or HMP, and based at 80 research institutions, reports that while nearly everyone carries pathogens -- which are microorganisms that cause illness -- pathogens cause no disease in healthy individuals....
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address Baird's 2011 Industrial Conference at 9:30 a.m. CT on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 in Chicago, Ill. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110304/LA59497LOGO) Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a live Internet webcast. The audio webcast and presentation material will be available through our website at www.up.com under Investors. To...
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address the Goldman Sachs Global Industrials Conference 2011 at 2:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 in Boston, MA. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110304/LA59497LOGO) Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a live Internet webcast. The audio webcast and presentation material will be available through our website at...
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address the 2011 Citi Global Industrials Conference at 11:20 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 in Boston, MA. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110304/LA59497LOGO) Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a live Internet webcast. The audio webcast and presentation material will be available through our website at www.up.com...
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address the Morgan Keegan Industrial and Transportation Conference at 8:35 a.m. CT on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in Chicago, IL. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110304/LA59497LOGO) Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a live Internet webcast. The audio webcast and presentation material will be available through our website at...
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rob Knight, chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address the Credit Suisse 2011 Automotive and Transportation Conference at 8:40 a.m. ET on Thursday, September 8, 2011, in New York, NY. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110304/LA59497LOGO) Interested investors may listen to the presentation via a live Internet webcast. The audio webcast and presentation material will be available through our...
Findings have potential health implications as infants grow and developA new study indicates different delivery methods of newborn babies has a big effect on the types of microbial communities they harbor as they emerge into the world, findings with potential implications for the heath of infants as they grow and develop.The study, led by the University of Puerto Rico and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder and two Venezuelan institutes, showed that babies delivered vaginally had...
Unique human microbe communities have wide implications for human healthA University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our health.The study showed humans carry "personalized" communities of bacteria around that vary widely from our foreheads and feet to our...
Are women actually the dirtier of the two sexes? The answer is yes, according to a new study that found ladies have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands compared to men. "One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between hands on the same individual," said co-author and University of Colorado biochemistry assistant professor Rob Knight. "The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a...
