Sentences with phrase «coaxing bacteria»

Coaxing bacteria into breaking down plant matter into the stuff that powers cars is a complex, multi-step process that often requires multiple organisms and bioreactors.

Ultimately, Gracias dreams of coaxing bacteria to ferry spongy nanoparticles soaked in drugs and outfitting bacteria with tiny sensors that measure local temperature and pH or tiny tools that perform surgery on a single cell.

The same basic methods are used to coax bacteria and algae to synthesize plastics and biofuel.

In traditional tests to coax bacteria into mutating resistance to a drug, the researchers just kept being able to kill the bacteria.

Not exact matches

In a paper published this month in the journal Science, the researchers describe how they have now coaxed Escherichia coli bacteria into creating bicyclobutanes, a group of chemicals that contain four carbon atoms arranged so they form two triangles that share a side.

An antibiotic discovered using a method that coaxes «unculturable» bacteria to grow in the lab could have a longer lifespan than current drugs

Seeing how difficult it is to coax these hardy microbes to thrive gives him confidence to say: «The surface conditions on Mars are so harsh that it's very unlikely that terrestrial bacteria and fungi will be able to establish a niche.»

The team reasoned that this «negative loop» could fit neatly around positively charged calcium ions in water, attracting them to the surface of the bacteria and coaxing them to form CaCO3.

Researchers have coaxed a common lab bacterium, Escherichia coli, to produce large amounts of polyketides, the raw material for a large class of drugs that have often been difficult to produce.

Scientists had simply inserted a single gene into bacteria and coaxed them into churning out as many copies of the same protein as possible.

They defend us from bacteria, coax wounds to heal, and perform other vital tasks.

Weak immune system Aerobic workouts are a natural cold - fighter, coaxing immune cells out of body tissues and into the bloodstream, where they attack invading viruses and bacteria, explains David Nieman, DrPH, a professor at Appalachian State University, whose research shows that five days of cardio a week reduced sick days by 43 percent.