Sentences with phrase «bacteria at the lab»

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Another Purdue professor, Alina Alexeenko, works in a lab at the university that focuses on preserving bacteria and biologics.

In biologist John March's lab at Cornell, for example, they have armed probiotic bacteria with tools to make an intestinal cell act like more like a pancreatic cell.

Onstott keeps a sealed workspace in his lab at high temperature and free of oxygen — just like home for the bacteria he studies.

Microbiologist Stephen Rich of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (the lab that tested Baby S's tick) at the University of Massachusetts took issue with Sunil Sood's statement that «Testing for bacteria is a waste of time and money.»

Although most microbes in the other facilities were bacteria, between 83 % and 97 % of the microbes at the meteorite lab were fungus.

Now at UCLA, Liu is launching his own lab to study the way the inorganic components of soil influence bacteria's ability to run these and other important chemical reactions.

Back at their lab Christner and Bryan examine two dozen petri dishes containing bacteria collected from flights that peaked between 10,000 and 80,000 feet.

We don't study the human pathogenic bacterium in our lab, but use a less pathogenic surrogate called Francisella novicida,» explained Dr. Aria Eshraghi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

His lab began by working with Matt Bennett, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice, to make use of two tailored forms of E. coli bacteria created by Rice graduate student Chen Ye.

The technique worked well in lab experiments, but when Eugene Madsen, a microbiologist at Cornell University, and colleagues saw the study, they wondered if the technique could locate bacteria in the field.

«There have been a lot of lab studies looking at silver nanoparticles showing that they are highly toxic to bacteria, fungi, other microorganisms,» explains Ben Colman, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University who led the study.

Now, immunologists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, have contaminated lab mice in a different way: by giving them gut bacteria from wild mice.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

That may sound like science fiction, but the Church lab at Harvard has already changed portions of the genetic code of E. coli bacteria to repel viral attacks.

Accidents at universities have also drawn scrutiny of federal oversight of labs that work with select agents, a list of risky viruses, bacteria, and toxins that could potentially be used to cause harm.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

The new discovery, reported Aug. 31 in the journal Cell by King's lab and the lab of Jon Clardy at Harvard Medical School, suggests that choanos «eavesdrop» on bacteria to make sense of their environment and regulate their life history.

Currently, 0.3 % triclosan is the maximum amount permitted in consumer soaps in most countries and several studies under lab conditions have shown that soaps containing this amount tend to be no more effective at killing bacteria on hands than plain soap.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

Nicholas Clements, a director at Delos Labs, is collecting samples of the office microbiome: bacteria, fungi and more that live in the office's nooks and crannies, and on the surfaces that people touch every day.

They included: Bill Ghiorse, who led someEnvironmental Protection Agency research into subsurface bacteria thateat toxic waste; Duane Moser, a lab wizard and avid spelunker; SvetlanaKotelnikova, a Russian scientist working in Sweden; Mary DeFlaun ofEnvirogen; and Jim Fredrickson, who has isolated many deep - bacteriacultures while working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Now a research team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil.

Scientists at other institutions studying the bacterium and its effect on people with CF said the research was important and indicated others will follow the lead of Whiteley's lab.

«NC State researchers in Bob Kelly's lab are looking at how we can produce trees that can be paired with thermophilic bacteria for optimal conversion to biofuels and biochemicals,» Wang says.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a «one - pot» method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material.

Unlike some biology colleagues at UTMSI, his work didn't involve large incubators full of growing bacteria — his lab mainly analyzes DNA sequences of marine microbes to study their physiology and metabolism.

Safety lapses in CDC labs captured headlines in 2014 when scientists at a high - level biosecurity lab did not properly inactivate anthrax bacteria before sending the material to labs with fewer safeguards.

Kim Lewis at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues have hit on a startlingly simple method to solve the problem — just make bacteria feel at home in the lab.

Today, the company announced that sequencing at its lab in Darmstadt, Germany, in collaboration with the nearby University of Münster, «strongly suggests that the bacterium... is a new hybrid type of pathogenic E. coli strains.»

A team led by microbiologist Steve Carlson at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service lab in Ames, Iowa, was interested in harnessing microcins as antibiotics but wondered whether bacteria would eventually learn how to evade these too.

Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his team have created a portable smartphone attachment that can be used to perform sophisticated field testing to detect viruses and bacteria without the need for bulky and expensive microscopes and lab equipment.

Two months after safety breaches at federal labs first set off a public furor, top health officials are auditioning new checks on worker safety including specialized time - lapse cameras and digital worksheets to track crucial steps such as bacterium inactivation.

While the improved organisms excel at photosynthesis in a lab setting, they're ill prepared to compete with other bacteria.

So far our work has been spread across Labs at the Centre of Bacteria Cell Biology (at Newcastle University), Northumbria University and Civil Engineering as well as the workshops in Architecture at Newcastle University.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories working at JBEI have resolved the protein structure of the enzyme LigM, which is utilized by the soil bacterium Sphingomonas to metabolize aryl compounds derived from lignin, the stiff, organic material that gives plants their structure.

«If all plants could do what legumes can do, then we wouldn't need nitrogen fertilizer and we would solve these problems,» said Frugoli, whose lab at Clemson works to understand the signaling between the plant and bacteria in the nitrogen fixation relationship.

We use the advanced science developed for National Security at the Los Alamos National Lab to identify every strain of every organism (bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast and mold) in your gut, assess how active these organisms are in your gut, and analyze the nutrients and toxins being produced by these organisms.

Dr. Justin Sonnenburg is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg is a senior research scientist in the Sonnenburg lab where they research many aspects the interaction between diet with the 100 trillion or so bacteria in the gut (specifically the colon) and how this impacts the health of the host (which in this case is a laboratory research mouse).

Most ferments require 4 weeks room temperature fermentation in order to be at the optimum level of LABs (lactic acid bacteria).

Dr Ghannoum's lab at Case Western Reserve University has been running some of the most sophisticated clinical trials on bacteria and fungi in the gut, and how they impact a number of health conditions like Crohn's Disease and even our oral health.

«Probiotics» such as acidophilus, the natural bacteria found in yogurt, are other candida - fighters, and are available at the natural foods store in powdered form in the refrigerated section, or from Kirkman Labs.

The tests were done at an outside lab an michael kors outlet online d did not find disease causing bacteria such as E. coli, listeria, or salmonella.

After we have determined that bacteria are part of the problem our lab provides us with information on how effective antibiotics will be at the level of the bladder.

Hovanec: Over the years, starting at Marineland, I was part of the engineering and research group that developed the BioWheel and the Eclipse while discovering the bacteria that formed BioSpira and developing the Marineland Labs groups of products, to name a few.

Fleas collected from the burrows tested positive at a lab for Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague.

He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Pedro Beltrao's lab at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, where he is developing models to predict the impact of genetic differences among different strains of the model gut bacterium Escherichia coli, in collaboration with microbiologist Nassos Typas (EMBL, Heidelberg).

Known for swabbing spit from art - world women and growing bacteria at a MIT lab, Yi is lauded for her works that tap into the intersections of biology, psychology, social issues, and sensory perception.

Our group from the Ducklow lab was examining the production rates of decompositional bacteria at the base of the ecosystem.