Sentences with phrase «collect microbial samples»

This study aims to collect microbial samples from surfaces, air, staff, and patients from the University of Chicago's new hospital pavilion in order to better understand the factors that influence bacterial population development in healthcare environments.

The cheerleaders will collect microbial samples from sports facilities around the United States; the microbes will compete in space to see which grow the fastest, according to a Random Sample in this week's Science.

Collecting microbial samples from a crime scene, or from a suspect, is surprisingly simple.

Not exact matches

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

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.

Nathan Cude works in Novozymes» agbiotech division in Durham, North Carolina in the microbial discovery group, which isolates and identifies thousands of microbes collected from soil samples around the United States.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.»

Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and his colleagues used two ships to collect 200 samples from 17 deep water locations between May 25 and June 2.

They collected 360 microbial samples from 20 locations (9 air, 11 surface) at 18 time points, using air filters and swabs.

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.

If we can collect a sample, we can determine whether microbial life exists in order to understand how it evolved and how it continues in this cold environment with no sunlight or energy.»

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To investigate variation in gut microbial community composition within a species, we collected fecal samples from five groups of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Mexico over an eight - week period (May - July 2009).

«Winning the Baillet Latour Fellowship award will allow me to collect samples and study rates of microbial activity in East Antarctica, one of the worlds remotest and most extreme environments.

Later, as a young microbial ecologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, she started to catalog the microorganisms she collected during soil sampling trips, deciphering their genetic code so she could understand both their internal workings and how they fit into their underground habitat.

Curiosity will look for signs that microbial life once existed on Mars, and will also collect core samples of rocks on Mount Sharp and the Gale Crater.

The Georgetown team's preliminary data demonstrates that they collected sequenced DNA over 68,000 base pairs long from 10,000 year - old microbial samples, meaning that the DNA came from viable cells.

We collected samples from the microbial mats on the Dutch Wadden island Texel.

Robots (Argo floats and gliders) have become increasingly useful in collecting physical information — more data have been collected in the last two years from the Argo floats than previously existed — and there are plans to develop a biological sampling capacity on these robots, although possibly at the microbial level.

The team also collected samples of microbial life that can survive the high salinity and low oxygen levels of the brine pool.