Sentences with phrase «by microbes into»

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

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Or perhaps a microbe - bearing rock was hurled by an impact into space and landed on Venus or Mars, which may have been more hospitable to life billions of years ago.

By depleting these greenhouse gases, the microbes might turn their warm world into a giant snowball, killing them all.

Drilling into the crater left by the dino - devastating Chicxulub impact in Mexico, researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of pioneering microbes.

A team led by University of Minnesota immunologist and gastroenterologist Alexander Khoruts has recently demonstrated spectacular success with fecal transplants, which introduce healthy stool microbes into a diseased bowel.

«Microbes have long been known to «steal» drugs by converting them into inactive forms,» says Peter Turnbaugh of Harvard University, who led the study.

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.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

In broccoli sprouts, its precursor, glucoraphanin, exists and is converted into sulforaphane by myrosinase contained in broccoli itself and produced by microbes in the gut.

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.

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.

Eggs, beef, pork and fish are the primary sources of carnitine and choline — compounds that are converted by gut microbes into trimethylamine, which is then processed by the liver and released into the circulation as TMAO.

An expedition into the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico by JBEI and Berkeley Lab researchers led to the identification of a soil microbe that utilizes lignin as its sole source of carbon.

To confirm that possibility, the researchers transferred the microbes into mice that had no intestinal bacteria, either by feeding the microorganisms to the animals or giving them the Bacteroides - rich feces of some ipilimumab - treated patients.

It started when the corpses of microbes and algae fell to the sea floor and got sucked into Earth's mantle by diving tectonic plates.

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.

In unpublished work, Dinan and his colleagues took stool samples from people with depression and put those bacteria (called «melancholic microbes» by Dinan in a 2013 review in Neurogastroenterology and Motility) into rats.

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.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

Microbes improve soil quality by cycling nutrients and breaking plant residues down into soil organic matter.

This approach is also being used to reverse engineer even more complex gut environments by integrating other cell types, such as immune cells, neuronal cells, and commensal microbes into the device.

According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Scientific Reports, 30 per cent of the microbes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kabuno Bay grow by a type of photosynthesis that oxidizes (rusts) iron rather than converting water into oxygen like plants and algae.

Most of the rest was incorporated into the deep - sea sediments, where it could be recycled by animals and microbes that feed on the mud.

By absorption of solar heat, these particles, and the microbes they contain, melt into the ice.

The DNA process disrupted by the U.N.C. team is called conjugation, which occurs when two bacteria sidle up to one another and punch holes in each of their outer membranes, allowing one microbe to shoot a single strand of DNA into the other.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

The next step, Wright notes, is to look at a more complete assessment of beaver meadows» carbon budget that takes into account the greenhouse gases emitted by microbes that tend to thrive in moist sediments such as natural wetlands and rice paddies.

Now, researchers suggest that damage control is helped by the microbe's tendency to pack extra copies of its genome into tidy doughnuts of DNA.

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

Keasling says that his team will try to improve both of those issues by engineering similar genes into yeast, a more industrially useful microbe.

Low on fuel, it will crash into Saturn in order to protect the planet's moons from contamination by any Earth microbes that may have hitched a ride for all these years.

Compounds produced by microbes either cause changes in the gut directly or pass into the host's bloodstream and influence the central nervous system, possibly through neural, hormonal and immune pathways5.

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

Microbes can also generate nitrogen by taking carbon and using it fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.

The finding suggests that microbes with the ability to produce oxygen were prolific at least locally around 3.46 billion years ago, releasing large quantities of this reactive molecular gas into the oceans and eventually the atmosphere by the end of this period (more).

By producing proteins that slice and recombine carbon dioxide molecules, these microbes work in tandem with the grasses to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into solid, carbon - rich biological matter that gets stored underground.

«ASM is honored to have been chosen by The Kavli Foundation to lead this effort to bring cross-cutting research into the forefront to better understand how microbes interact with each other and their environments,» said Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, ASM.

While this is a much more complex and daunting undertaking, by understanding the functions and network interactions of genes and proteins — both human and microbe — we will ultimately gain far greater insight into human health and reveal more solutions to dread diseases.

By optimizing existing biochemical pathways or engineering new ones, scientists turn microbes and plants into safe, contained manufacturing centers.

Your action tip: Commit to supporting your microbiome on a daily basis by choosing a whole food diet high in plant - based fibers and by taking an effective, multi-strain probiotic supplement that delivers billions of mighty microbes deep into your gut, where they can get to work supporting your mental health from the belly up.

However, microbes have been shown to die by colloidal silver, thus the focus of this treatment is to get colloidal silver inside the cancer cells in order to kill the microbes and revert the cancer cells into normal cells.

Because humans lack a suitable enzyme in the small intestine to digest it, a majority of lactitol reaches the large intestine, where it then becomes fermentable to gut microbes (prebiotic) and can pull water into the gut by osmosis, causing a laxative effect.

If these pathogenic microbes get into pasteurized milk, however, they thrive because the enzymes and beneficial bacteria, which serve to destroy bacteria in raw milk, have been destroyed by pasteurization.

They are not putting themselves into a «nutritional» state of starvation by restricting protein along with carbohydrate, in order to consume more micronutrient bankrupt fat, without even resistant, fermentable fibers to ensure vitamin - synthesis by gut microbes — just to ensure keto - hocus - pocus long term.

When the colloidal silver is absorbed by a cell, it will probably kill the microbe inside the cell, thus allowing the cell to revert back into a normal healthy cell.For More Details go here

One of the compounds in pomegranate is transformed by gut microbes into a molecule called urolithin A, which causes mitophagy a process important for the renewal of mitochondria.

When it comes to cheese though, the KEY to digestibility is that it's a good quality AGED cheese... A true aged cheese that's gone through multiple stages of fermentation from various forms of microbes will always be the easiest to digest due to the pre-digestion already performed by many of the microbes, as each stage in the aging process will help break down the dairy components into more digestible forms.

Dr. Conrad took stool from healthy dogs, screened it by culturing microbes to check for certain bacteria, then liquified the stool and injected it into the intestines of sick puppies with a rectal tube.

Once the nerve endings that are present in the stomach and mostly in the proximal small intestine are irritated by any agent, like toxins, acids, microbes, chemicals, poisons or even rapid and strong digestive activity, this results into a triggering note for the vomit center in brain or for CTZ.

The scientists found that almost 70 % of the organic carbon initially present in the weathered bedrock had been oxidised by soil microbes, to put, for every square kilometre they measured, somewhere between six and 18 tonnes of carbon back into the atmosphere.