Sentences with phrase «by microbes»

It's an odor produced by microbes in the soil as they break down plants.

Our project aims to understand the formation of dissolved organic matter produced by microbes.

The total amount of methane made by these microbes is probably greater than the mass of all known reserves of coal, gas, and oil.

The objective is to provide a scientifically laboratory basis for releasing drugs in treating illnesses caused by microbes, virus, fungus and parasites.

We also know that fiber is digested by the microbes in our gut to produce beneficial by - products such as short - chain fatty acids.

Okay — this one is a little deep: Taste is driven by microbes.

The findings reveal the important role played by these microbes as they consume enough methane to influence the global levels of greenhouse gas.

Living yogurt is actually easier to digest than regular milk products because of the reduced lactose content created by microbes.

The photo was taken from a research vessel that scientists used to studied methane consumption by microbes in the ocean.

Produced in the GI tract by microbes («good» bacteria).

Once the nutrients in the flour have been digested by the microbes, growth slows down and the starter falls.

We assumed they were created by microbes that make food from sunlight.

Analysis of that sample showed that early Mars offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including the key elemental ingredients for life and a chemical energy source such as used by some microbes on Earth.

Analysis of these samples revealed the site was once a lakebed with mild water, the essential elemental ingredients for life, and a type of chemical energy source used by some microbes on Earth.

Permafrost soils on land, and in ocean shelves, contain large pools of organic carbon, which must be thawed and decomposed by microbes before it can be released — mostly as CO2.

The vernix hydrates the skin and helps protect the baby from infection by microbes like E. coli, Group B Strep, and yeast.

By studying iron extracted from cores drilled in rocks similar to these in Karijini National Park, Western Australia, UW - Madison researchers determined that half of the iron atoms had originated in shallow oceans after being processed by microbes 2.5 billion years ago.

More than 90 percent of methane is (and has been) generated by microbes known as methanogens, which are members of the archaea, a group of microbes that are similar to bacteria.

The researchers used the technique to analyze methane samples from settings including lakes, swamps, groundwater, deep - sea vents, and the guts of cows, as well as methane generated by microbes in the lab.

The researchers applied this new interpretation to methane formed by microbes in the lab, and found good agreement between the isotopes detected and the rates at which the gas formed.

However, many of the sources along the continental slope lie at cold depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.

Work on methane is close to yielding a tool for distinguishing gas made by microbes from «abiotic» methane made from mineral reactions deep in Earth.

Washington, DC (Scicasts)-- Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world.

«We are beginning to observe that infants from different parts of the world have different patterns of colonization by microbes,» said lead study author Zachary T. Lewis, a postdoctoral fellow.

Scientists would like to know how much of this old carbon is draining away from permafrost and finding its way into the atmosphere, having been transformed by microbes into greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

It doesn't simulate the formation of slicks or tarballs, and the dye doesn't get eaten by microbes or weathered by waves.

In deeper parts of the ocean, the methane released from the ocean floor would likely never make it up to the atmosphere, since it would get used up by microbes before it reached the surface.

A team led by entomologist Wangpeng Shi of China Agricultural University in Beijing noticed that migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria manilensis) infected by a microbe known as Paranosema locustae were less likely to aggregate into swarms than were their healthy counterparts.

Whether burned by the sun, attacked by microbes, nicked by a paper cut or worse, the skin quickly becomes inflamed — red, swollen, and painful — as the body seeks to halt the damage and initiate repair.

Our bodies closely control the molecular composition of our blood, but the content of our sweat is more variable and is sometimes influenced by microbes on our skin — so the medical relevance of the information that sweat provides will need to be rigorously tested.

MPK4 controls what is known as systemic acquired resistance, or SAR, which occurs as a response to invasion by microbes.

Responsibly nutritive grain capable of indefinitely extending consumption is pharmaceutically converted by microbes into the effulgence of waste.

The sulphur - containing molecule methyl mercaptan is naturally produced in significant quantities on Earth only by microbes, including some that make their pungent presence known in the human body.

TCA is produced when some amount of chlorine in the environment is metabolized by a microbe.

In the meantime, no one really knows, of course, what you would see if you visited one of these strange worlds in your planet - hopping time machine, but if they are at all like Earth, chances are you would find a planet dominated by microbes rather than charismatic megafauna.

Our strongest antibiotics are being thwarted by microbes that can lie dormant, only to reawaken once the threat has passed

The fish is then preserved by the microbes» acids or alcohol, and flavored by the many byproducts of their growth.

Researchers have long worried that crop - munching insects could become resistant to Bt, a toxin naturally produced by the microbe Bacillus thuringiensis that is harmless to most other organisms.

A recent study in PLoS Genetics has found, instead, that prokaryotes acquire genes from near - by microbes quite often.

Diarrhea is often — but not always — infectious, meaning that it is thought to be caused by a microbe such as a virus, bacterium or parasite that can spread from person to person.

«Designer biosensor can detect antibiotic production by microbes.»

In E. coli, MphR can detect the presence of macrolide antibiotics being secreted by microbes that are attacking E. coli.

It's this big carbon storehouse, but it's all in methane, and it's all controlled by the microbes.»