Sentences with phrase «by microbial life»

We live in a world that is dominated by microbial life.

Methane hydrates when they unform — sensitive to regional hydrology changes, are consumed by microbial life and converted eventually to CO2.

«Much of the history of life on Earth has been dominated by microbial life,» the scientists explain in the paper.

Not exact matches

Improve Sustainability and Business Performance by Reducing Dairy Food Waste HOLDBAC ™ YM Protective Cultures can improve microbial stability and extend the shelf life of yogurt to dramatically improve value.

Researchers also found the acidity created by the lactobacilli acts as a preservative even after being subjected to high heats during the baking process, resisting microbial deterioration and increasing the shelf life of products.

This practice is thought to make the food «safer» by extending its shelf life, and reducing the incidence of microbial and insect manifestations, along with their respective diseases.

Complex life may be less resilient than microbial life by some measures, but it's not necessarily cosmically delicate

Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) has gained acceptance for treating Clostridium difficile infection, a life threatening and difficult to treat dysbiosis that often is caused by heavy use of antibiotics.

Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

By examining peak ring rocks closely, they hope to test models of crater formation and determine whether the crater itself was one of the first habitats for microbial life after the impact.

The neglected kingdoms are broadly microbial and comprise by any measure, be it their biomass or genetic diversity, the «unseen majority» of life.

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.

Preventive vaccines work by introducing harmless microbial chemical markers, known as antigens, which resemble the markers on living microbes.

They make a living by slipping inside their microbial hosts and hijacking their biochemistry to make many new copies of themselves.

The novel techniques developed by Louca and his colleagues will allow scientists around the world to better understand the processes that shape microbial communities, which form the basis of life on Earth.

The old way to search for microbial life in the ocean, he explains, was to isolate individual species by growing them in laboratory cultures.

An unconventional solution is now presented by Singaporean and Chinese scientists: as reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they coated live, electroactive bacteria with a conducting polymer and obtained a high - performance anode for microbial fuel cells.

The researchers found that the types of organic compounds found in microbial and algal life — long chain hydrocarbon - dominated matter - were destroyed by the pressures of impact.

«We think that by restoring the natural «microbial identity» of laboratory mice, we will improve the modeling of complex diseases of free - living mammals, which includes humans and their diseases,» said Barbara Rehermann, M.D., senior author of the paper.

The findings illuminate the specialized roles played by key members of the vast microbial community living in the human gut, and could inform the development of tailored microbiota transplants to improve intestinal health after antibiotic use or illness.

To read «Nearing the cold - arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica» by Jacqueline Goordial et al in The ISME Journal: 10.1038 / ismej.2015.239

Washington, D.C. — May 13, 2016 — In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

Data and samples observed by the rover showed the previous presence of lakes and freshwater that are essential in the survival of microbial life.

In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700 - million - year - old microbial structures.

Despite comparatively intense bombardment by large impactors, chemical and radio - isotopic trace evidence of what appears to be biologically processed carbon in Earth's oldest surviving rocks — from western Greenland's Isua greenstone belt that are as old as 3.85 billion years — suggest that self - replicating, carbon - based microbial life became well developed during Earth's first billion years of existence.

Led by the American Society of Microbiology, in partnership with the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society, the Kavli Challenge will support the development of next generation scientific tools to investigate life on a microbial scale.

Scientists are still trying to explain how this microbial diversity comes about, but it is likely influenced by factors including diet, environment, host genetics and exposure to microbes early in life.

According to a survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University, the Milky Way may be host to over 100 million planets hosting life beyond the microbial stage.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

Data collected by the Dawn spacecraft during its analysis of the dwarf planet Ceres has revealed the presence of organic molecules on the 590 mile (950 km) object, meaning it could potentially host microbial life, according to research published this...

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

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.

While no one can say with certainty what sort of life might be turned up by these experiments, the usual assumption is that it will be microbial, as single - celled life is adaptable to a wide range of environments and requires less energy.

By «complex life,» the researchers don't mean necessarily technologically advanced or even highly intelligent life, but rather life forms that are above the microbial level and form stable food chains like those found in ecosystems on Earth.

According to a survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University, the Milky Way may be host to over 100 million planets hosting life beyond the microbial stage (Image: PHL at UPR Arecibo / NASA / Richard Wheeler @Zephyris)

Increasing the expression of PGRP - SC, the molecules that regulate the immune response to bacteria in the intestinal epithelium (a response that can be mimicked by drugs), restored microbial balance and halted overproiferation of stem cells, increasing life span.

The discovery pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years, and raises an intriguing question — where did life first emerge, on land or in the oceans?

In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

Data collected by the Dawn spacecraft during its analysis of the dwarf planet Ceres has revealed the presence of organic molecules on the 590 mile (950 km) object, meaning it could potentially host microbial life, according to research published this week in the journal Science.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

This violent end is a precaution planned by scientists to prevent any potential contamination from the spacecraft spreading to Enceladus and Titan, which are seen as potential places that microbial life could have emerged.

The discovery of fossils of microorganisms in 3.48 billion - year - old hot spring deposits pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years.

A mission to explore the frozen north pole of Mars as part of the search for past, or even present, microbial life has been selected by NASA for launch in 2007.

Again quoting from the free encyclopedia, «Probiotics are live microorganisms that may confer a health benefit on the host... «live microbial feed supplement which beneficially affects the host animal by improving its intestinal microbial balance»... commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures.»

Prebiotic fibers are the substrate on which gut flora (microbial life forms) feed, producing a variety of beneficial by - products, principally short - chain fatty acids.

Filled with some two dozen wire - woven openwork sculptures by Ruth Asawa, the big second - floor gallery at David Zwirner's West 20th Street space in Chelsea looks like a basketry forest, or a subaqueous garden, or a cloud of microbial life.

London's Arebyte Gallery is bringing in a solo exhibition by speculative designer and artist Zoë Hough called The Microbial Verdict: You Live Until You Die and running from May 7 until June 6.

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts — living ground cover formed by microbial communities — to reveal how long - dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.