Sentences with phrase «active microbial life»

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

Using a portable, miniature DNA sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore MiniON), the researchers show for the first time that not only can the tool be used for examining environmental samples in extreme and remote settings, but that it can be combined with other methodology to detect active microbial life in the field.

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Lake ice microbial communities, called LIMCOs as a counterpart to the already well described sea ice microbial communities (SIMCOs), are highly active and live within alternating layers of slush and white ice.

Again quoting from the free encyclopedia, «Probiotics are live microorganisms that may confer a health benefit on the host... «live microbial feed supplement which beneficially affects the host animal by improving its intestinal microbial balance»... commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures.»