Project:

Analyzing Microbial Species Variation in the Feces of Healthy and GI-Affected Seals Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Techn

Students:

Riya Sarwal, Ava Skolnick, Grace Skolnick

School:

Friends Academy, Nassau

Mentors:

Jennifer Newitt

Abstract:

By utilizing the interrelationship between gut microbes and cancers we can predict and detect cancers in seals by employing the research founded on the correlation between them. As stated by the NBCI, the connection between an imbalance in the gut microbiota of humans and the development of colorectal cancer may be influenced by many processes that are distinct to each species. This conclusion was reached during a research of colorectal cancer and the link to gut microbe bacteria. The presence of Fusobacterium nucleatum, Bacteroides fragilis, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Helicobacter hepaticus, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Helicobacter pylori, Streptococcus bovis, and Porphyromonas gingivalis has been associated with the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Each microbe performs functions that may affect the development of the cancer. Being able to identify these microbes can help us detect the possibility of this cancer earlier as well as understand how each one is af

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