Sentences with phrase «by tiny microbes»

Take a good look at this photo: It shows you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth.

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Lacticin 3147, a tiny protein made up of two peptide units, has been shown by researchers at the Teagasc Dairy Products Research Centre in Ireland and University College Cork to be effective in suppressing microbes in foods.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

Tiny carbon nuggets in meteorites from Mars were formed by cooling magma, not left by ancient alien microbes.

Not many, by microbial standards — 300 cells in 1 milliliter of ice vs. 100,000 cells in seawater — but they're there, in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice and serve as «little houses,» Priscu said, which also contain nutrients that could feed a hungry microbe.

Don't be deceived by its tiny stature and minuscule lifespan; this cell can capture bubonic plague in a web of its own DNA, spew out enzymes to digest anthrax and die in a kamikaze blaze of microbe - massacring glory.

The discovery of microbes — those single - celled organisms that exist by the millions in a drop of water, blood, or tiny patch of any living tissue — was a game - changer, scientifically speaking.