Sentences with phrase «by microbiologists»

To figure out what gives the protein, called listeriolysin, its unique abilities, a team led by microbiologists Amy Decatur and Daniel Portnoy of the University of California, Berkeley, compared its amino acid sequence to that of another protein that drills holes through all kinds of membranes.

It would be just another word used by microbiologists.

Now, a team led by microbiologist Tim Kunkel of The Rockefeller University in New York City has shown that at least two crops — lettuce and tobacco — can be engineered without using antibiotic resistance genes.

A team of scientists led by microbiologist Felisa Wolfe - Simon took the stage and described a new bacterium, discovered in a salty lake, that incorporates the normally toxic element arsenic into its DNA.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by microbiologist Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City added antibiotics to the drinking water of mice that had just been weaned.

For the water to reach the households in a clean state via the distribution network, a team headed by microbiologist Ursula Obst, who directs the partial project for water processing and water quality assurance, developed methods for the central, semi-centralized, and local processing of water.

The team, led by microbiologist Carol Kumamoto and nutrition scientist Alice H. Lichtenstein, investigated the effects of three different dietary fats on the amount of C. albicans in the mouse gut: coconut oil, beef tallow and soybean oil.

One opponent of the now - revoked patent was CRISPR Therapeutics, co-founded by microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, who collaborated with Doudna on early CRISPR technology and is listed on key patents.

Earlier this year, a team led by microbiologist Ry Young of Texas A&M University in College Station showed that an especially tiny type of phage blocks a bacterial enzyme that builds cell walls.

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.

Led by microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon and graduate student Vanessa Ridaura, the team took advantage of one of the rodents» least endearing habits: They eat each other's poop.

But in April a team led by microbiologist Anne Summers of the University of Georgia reported that the beds are also littered with integrons, genes that can render those bacteria impervious to several antibiotics at once, making them nearly impossible to kill.

A group of scientists, led by microbiologist Rosie Redfield at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, have posted data on Redfield's blog that, she says, present a «clear refutation» of key findings from the paper.

Researchers at PiPS, led by microbiologist and molecular geneticist Kathryn T. Hall, Ph.D., were among the first to propose this.

A modern - day recreation of the remedy once used to treat styes was concocted by microbiologist Freya Harrison from the University of Nottingham, who met the challenge of sourcing the curious ingredients.

Despite expert evidence, provided by a microbiologist, gastroenterologist and environmental health officer, which supported Bourne Leisure's defence, the claimants» solicitors continued on to trial and maintained that it would only settle for damages and costs, an offer which was refused by the client.

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It was founded in 1988 by Curt Jones, a microbiologist with a background in cryogenics.

The laboratory study, conducted by NSF International under the direction of Maryann Sanders, senior regulatory specialist and microbiologist at Haley & Aldrich, Inc. and sponsored by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA), evaluated both temperature and time to determine if typical corrugated manufacturing processes, which combine a fluted or arched layer of paper sandwiched between two smooth layers, were sufficient for sanitization.

Other defendants include Gerald Zirnstein, a former U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist credited with coining the term «pink slime» in a 2002 email to colleagues later obtained by The New York Times.

To add to that, it is gentle and it is tested by the dermatologist and microbiologist and found to be safe, so you won't have to worry about it irritating your baby during bath.

Specifically, BPI was seeking all of my confidential communications in 2012 with the defendants in the case, including employees of ABC News and the two former USDA microbiologists who first expressed concern about the meat filler in private emails later made public by the New York Times.

You don't seem to have noticed that the people who produced Microbirth are not microbiologists, but rather natural childbirth advocates who seek to increase market share by engendering distrust of obstetrcians.

«By advancing my knowledge of bacteria and viruses in the built environment at Shedd Aquarium, I will be able to enhance my engineering skills and experience as a microbiologist.»

That case, filed by BPI against ABC News, Jim Avila, Diane Sawyer, a former BPI employee and two former USDA microbiologists, seeks $ 1.2 billion in damages.

In a project called SWAB (Surface, Water, and Air Biocharacterization), NASA microbiologists keep tabs on the station's microscopic residents by sampling the water crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they touch.

Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.

Microbiologist Wendell Lim and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco are attempting to control living cells by rewriting their internal programming.

A team led by gastroenterologists Sieglinde Angelberger and Walter Reinisch (Medical University Vienna) and microbiologists David Berry and Alexander Loy (University of Vienna) explored how a treatment called «fecal microbiota transplantation» can be used to support microbial recolonization of the gut of patients with chronic intestinal inflammation (ulcerative colitis).

For more than a century, microbiologists have studied bacteria by isolating, growing and observing them in a petri dish.

«Although we don't know the mechanisms yet, repopulation of the gut by bacteria appears to analogous to succession in a forest after it is damaged in a storm,» said microbiologist David Berry: «pioneer species colonize the deforested area, in this case the inflamed intestine, and alter the ecosystem in a way that lets other species colonize and eventually a complex ecosystem can be restored.»

«What we notice with the 1918 virus with the natural HA on it is the virus spread very efficiently,» says Terrence Tumpey, a senior microbiologist at the CDC and first author of a report published online February 1 by Science.

For example, the average child in the United States has taken three courses of antibiotics by the time he or she is 2 years old, says Martin Blaser, an infectious disease specialist and microbiologist at New York University in New York City.

The new study «adds fuel to an active debate» about the role of accessory genes, says Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England — whether or not the collections of genetic add - ons that bacteria maintain are shaped by natural selection, the process that fuels evolution.

While on a field trip to southeastern Utah, microbiologist Harry Kurtz Jr. of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, was intrigued by striped stains on eolian — or wind - formed — sandstone.

A microbiologist by training, Sweet initially assumed the animals were afflicted with some kind of fungal infection.

«It's a little bit of a house of cards, because these techniques are all built on one filter made by one manufacturer,» says environmental microbiologist Eric Wommack of the University of Delaware in Newark.

Confusion had reigned over the new name since the virus was first reported by Ali Mohamed Zaki, an Egyptian microbiologist who isolated it in June 2012 from a patient at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he worked at the time.

Ourrespiratory agent is oxygen, a by - product of plant photosynthesis.Oxygen is rare below ground, and microbiologists have found subsurfaceorganisms that breathe an astounding variety of alternatives: ferriciron, sulfate, nitrate, nitrite, uranium, and carbon dioxide.

But a research team led by molecular microbiologists Didier Mazel of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Julian Davies of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver discerned that V. cholerae's integron might be capable of capturing more genes than had been thought.

It was for purely coincidental reasons — checking out details of a visit by famed cyclist Lance Armstrong to Davis, California — that the microbiologist signed up for an account in 2008.

In another experiment, a team of microbiologists headed by Benjamin Kerr at the University of Washington in Seattle grew E. coli in wells on plates.

It was initially called human coronavirus - EMC in a paper by its discoverer, Egyptian microbiologist Ali M. Zaki, and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC in the Netherlands, enlisted by Zaki to help characterize the virus.

Wagner explained by providing a scenario: Imagine that a microbiologist isolates a new bacterium and finds that the bacterium is viable on a fairly common carbon source.

Research continues to apply this fundamental discovery to the development of innovative drugs that could inhibit the X protein» highlights Dr. Simon Fletcher, from Gilead Sciences, Inc., whose team provided the in vivo verification of the discoveries made by the University of Geneva microbiologists.

A microbiologist by training and an astrobiologist by choice, his principle interest is in developing protocols, instrumentation and procedures for life detection in samples from the early earth and elsewhere in the solar system.

«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.»

Created by CDC microbiologist Frederick A. Murphy, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion.

New technology helped the researchers identify a type of E. coli bacteria found in people with Crohn's disease that can trigger inflammation associated with spondyloarthritis, according to the study led by principal investigator Dr. Randy Longman and scientists from the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine and the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, microbiologists at Cornell University and rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery.

In collaboration with researchers in the US and Germany, Otago microbiologists have teased out the mechanisms by which the aerobic soil microbe Mycobacterium smegmatis is able to persist for extreme lengths of time in the absence, or near - absence, of oxygen.

During this research, the microbiologists at Radboud University learned of a similar finding by colleagues from Vienna (Austria)-- where Sebastian Lücker also completed his PhD research a few years ago.