http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Mon, 20 May 2013 23:39:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/scientists-sequence-gut-microbes-of-premature-infant/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/scientists-sequence-gut-microbes-of-premature-infant/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:53:25 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=4353 UC Berkeley scientist Jill Banfield and colleagues have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in the gut of a premature newborn and documented how the microbe populations changed over time. Banfield and pediatric surgeon Michael Morowitz hope that characterizing gut microbes of normal and sick infants could lead to the cause of necrotizing enterocolitis in preemies.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/scientists-sequence-gut-microbes-of-premature-infant/feed/ 0