Sentences with phrase «by microbes from»

Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.
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.

Not exact matches

The many who become full fledged atheists have failed to seriously examine everything around us, from the smallest microbe to the largest star and galaxies, that show a precision unmatched by humans.
Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.
While fermentation is not a new process, and producing sweeteners by feeding microbes is arguably more sustainable than growing acres of stevia plants just to extract components from their leaves, it is unclear how the market will respond to EverSweet, given that the reason food and beverage manufacturers started experimenting with stevia in the first place was precisely due to its «natural» credentials (it's from a leaf).
The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheeseMicrobes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheesemicrobes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.
From the first day you mix your own nukadoko, it needs daily stirring by hand to aerate the rice bran and keep the microbes in check.
But as manufacturers add the microbes to everything from infant formula and fruit juice to pizza, muffins and granola bars, experts caution that the word «probiotic» is widely misused by the industry and misunderstood by consumers.
The vernix hydrates the skin and helps protect the baby from infection by microbes like E. coli, Group B Strep, and yeast.
However, the «cult of natural birth» filmmakers were interviewing scientists, perinatologists, nurses, midwives even an OB if I remember correctly about how the foundation of the immune system (the transfer of microbes from mother to baby) might be facilitated through natural birth OR by artificial, mechanical means after a Cesarean birth.
Babies born vaginally were colonized predominantly by Lactobacillus, microbes that aid in milk digestion, the research team from the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Colorado in Boulder and two Venezuelan institutes report.
Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.
From Sewers to Streetlights, Microbes Are Grabbing Civil Engineers» Attention An understanding of how to cultivate a healthy «microbiome» in our living areas is now getting off the ground, boosted by next - generation DNA sequencing technologies.
Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.
Scientists reached this conclusion by transferring microbes from bypass - treated obese mice to a group of lean mice raised in sterile conditions that left them with no intestinal bacteria at all.
New methods for the removal of contaminating DNA from microbes and present - day humans that were developed by the Leipzig group have now enabled the researchers to sequence the genomes of five Neandertals from Belgium, France, Croatia, and Russia that are between 39,000 and 47,000 years old.
David Cullen, a biotechnologist from Cranfield University in England, recently tested sensors designed to identify microbes embedded in the ice by searching for cell - wall molecules and small snippets of DNA.
A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.
By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectivelBy connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectivelby the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectivelby North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectivelby infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.
By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.
The diversity of microbes on the skin of frog species in Brazil's Atlantic Forest can vary with habitat, according to a study published July 5, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Ananda Brito de Assis from University of São Paulo, Brazil, and colleagues.
To study how a dead body decays in isolation, Peter Noble at Alabama State University in Montgomery sampled microbes from a selection of internal organs, as «these aren't influenced by environmental conditions», he says.
Frigid Europa may be warmed by a layer under its crust that moves heat and ice to and from its poles — and alien microbes could be hitching a ride
In the simple fermentation, the proportion of salt is usually enough by itself to preserve the fish from spoilage, and bacteria are important mainly as flavor modifiers.But in the mixed fermentation, a smaller dose of salt preserves the fish for just a few weeks while the plant - based ingredients feed the same microbes that sour milk or turn grape juice into wine.
«What I hope,» Relman says, «is that by starting with specimens from healthy people, the assumption would be that these microbes have probably been with us for some time relative to our stay on this planet and may, in fact, be important to our health.»
So the bacteria evidently form a sort of conductive chain, comprising biological nanowires and possibly pyrite grains embedded in the mud, that allows electrons from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and carbon within the sediment to contribute to the reduction of oxygen by other microbes at the sediment surface.
A recent study in PLoS Genetics has found, instead, that prokaryotes acquire genes from near - by microbes quite often.
Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.
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.
«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.
And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.
Bioprocess engineer Rafael Garcia of ARS and biochemical engineer Zhiyou Wen of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg are designing a study to grow EPA - and DHA - producing microbes using low - cost by - products of other processes, such as glycerol from biodiesel production and rendered animal protein from slaughterhouses.
Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to authorized medical procedures.
Another observation Northen noted from these results is that in many cases, metabolites that are found to be released by one microbe are consumed by another.
By comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians and grass - grazing baboons digest different diets, researchers have shown that ancestral human diets, so called «paleo» diets, did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.
The world greets newborn babies by bombarding them with everything from dust to disease - causing microbes.
Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to...
The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.
Mammals keep iron out of reach of invading microbes by storing it in cells like macrophages — white blood cells which, among other things, normally «recycle» the iron from red blood cells back into the bloodstream.
The equipment, fastidiously prepared to make sure that it does not contaminate the lake with microbes from the surface, was approved last year by the parties to the Antarctic Treaty.
Those genes might show that peak ring microbes — descendants of those that lived after the impact — derive their energy not from carbon and oxygen, like most microbes, but from iron or sulfur deposited by hot fluids percolating through the fractured rock.
Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team led by the University of Wisconsin - Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.
«For example, ocean currents can disperse microorganisms, but there is also evidence that microorganisms travel by air: microbes believed to have originated from the Gobi desert were collected in air samples from the northwestern United States.»
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 agBy 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 agby microbes 2.5 billion years ago.
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.
Tiny carbon nuggets in meteorites from Mars were formed by cooling magma, not left by ancient alien microbes.
To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.
Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.
In a report to be published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe online June 11, researchers showed that immune - system - triggering TB proteins, or antigens, were able to prompt a larger, prolonged immune system response just by being transported from infected dendritic cells to uninfected ones.
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