Sentences with phrase «analyzing microbial samples»
On field trips to Antarctica, he has spent long days in a tent, doing DNA extractions and analyzing microbial samples, huddled over a portable PCR machine.
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Dominquez - Bello, along with Jean Ruiz and colleagues, discovered that they could predict the functional spaces of homes just by analyzing the microbial samples, and that these predictions became more accurate with increased urbanization.
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Currently, researchers analyze microbial diversity by taking a sample they hope includes the different kinds of bacteria in the gut.
We analyzed 7.2 terabases of metagenomic data from 243 Tara Oceans samples from 68 locations in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters across the globe to generate an ocean microbial reference gene catalog with > 40 million nonredundant, mostly novel sequences from viruses, prokaryotes, and picoeukaryotes.
By discovering what kind of life inhabits Antarctic lakes, John Priscu — a microbial ecologist at Montana State University in Bozeman who is analyzing samples from Lake Whillans — hopes to understand what sort of technology will be needed when probes are eventually sent to those frozen moons.
The researchers analyzed DNA fragments in the samples to show that the microbial populations varied from region to region, even on the same variety of grape.
DNA samples are prepared from microbial specimens, and then analyzed using massively parallel sequencing methods such as 454 / Roche pyrosequencing [20].
They analyzed microbial DNA from the stool samples to identify microbes during early and late pregnancy.
Demands for faster and more accurate methods to analyze microbial communities from natural and clinical samples have been increasing in the medical and healthcare industry.