Sentences with word «desiccation»

Yeast engineered to produce the tardigrade glass proteins survive desiccation better than they normally do, Boothby's collaborators discovered.

The discovery represents the first confirmed case of active parental care against desiccation in an insect.

The amniotic sac contains a fluid that fills the amnion to protect the embryo from desiccation and shock.

My main interests in research has been life history evolution and eco-physiological adaptations in desiccation tolerance of so - called anhydrobiotic organisms, with particular focus on tardigrades.

In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago.

One of the several they identified resembles a plant gene called LEA that's also turned on by desiccation.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

In addition, the species exhibits a remarkable defense against desiccation.

NO WATER, NO PROBLEM Known as water bears, tardigrades (one seen under a light microscope) are famous for withstanding desiccation.

«shallow coral were increasingly vulnerable to deadly desiccation during more extreme sea level drops when warm waters slosh toward the Americas during an El Niño.»

The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip...

«Presumably, once induced, autophagy promotes desiccation tolerance in the grass, by recycling nutrients and removing cellular toxins to suppress programmed cell death.

That glazing enables the hardy microscopic creatures, also known as tardigrades, to withstand extreme desiccation, biologist Thomas Boothby of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported December 15 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

And just at the point of total desiccation, it transforms into a thoughtful, trenchant and penetrating wartime romance.

Stored seeds were further examined to determine the growth potential of embryos following desiccation and subsequent sub-zero storage.

Another point to keep in mind is that while no GMO wheat currently exists on the market, most conventional wheat is toxic due to widespread desiccation practices using glyphosate based herbicides during harvesting.

The new study clear indicates that climate change and variability has contributed to the lake desiccation.

This dramatically changes what was in solution so that what is observed using the TEM now has little relationship to what was in the solution before desiccation.

Disregard this, and the result is disproportion; and disproportion, as the Greeks knew, brings first chaos and then desiccation.»

Nor would I care to be stuck with an intellectual hatred of nation, viewing America as a land of human desiccation.

For all the moral desiccation of recent times, there is no reason to believe that the American people, once fully and fairly informed of what is at stake, can not rouse themselves to resist the siren song of assisted suicide.

Optimal mechanical management provides desiccation of cover crop while leaving the residue intact to serve as mulch and can include flail mowing, roll - crimping, roll — chopping and undercutting.

In addition to collecting water, hastening desiccation, and absorbing foul odors, the packets helped preserve the natural contours of the body for its resurrection in the afterlife.

Beyond this, we could take the DNA repair abilities from Polypedilum vanderplanki, a fly whose larvae can survive complete desiccation and extremes of heat and cold, and transplant them into human cells.

However, the skin can be a harsh environment for beneficial bacteria to live on due to UV exposure, high salinity, and desiccation stress.

Within its first three months on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover saw a surprising diversity of soils and sediments along a half - kilometer route that tell a complex story about the gradual desiccation of the Red Planet.

«We think this glassy mixture is trapping [other] desiccation - sensitive proteins and other biological molecules and locking them in place, physically preventing them from unfolding, breaking apart or aggregating together,» says Boothby.

Now, a new study has confirmed that these features are indeed desiccation cracks, and reveals fresh details about Mars» ancient climate.

Old Soaker is crisscrossed with polygons identical in appearance to desiccation features on Earth.

Since desiccation mudcracks form only where wet sediment is exposed to air, their position closer to the center of the ancient lake bed rather than the edge also suggests that lake levels rose and fell dramatically over time.

These recently emitted microbes might also more readily colonize other humans within the built environment than those found on surfaces or in resuspended dust, since recently emitted microbes are more likely to be physiologically active and have not been subjected to prolonged desiccation or UV exposure before colonization can successfully occur.

The MIS 5a palaeosol is overlain by massive sands, representing a major change in the depositional regime, which we interpret as evidence for climatic desiccation at the start of the last glacial period (MIS 4), which would be consistent with other dated records for the region [13], [16], [18], [30].

Not sure and often, heat drying is more like desiccation — just hot enough to help the natural evaporation of water — like making REAL beef jerky, which should be dried at 104F max.

A rabbit who does not drink sufficient water will gradually begin to suffer desiccation of the intestinal contents.

Collect it on glass or plastic and place it immediately in a baggie to avoid desiccation.

Desiccation occurs below 50 % RH.

There's always an element of surprise when the sculpture is released from the mould; and the long period of desiccation required before it is ready to be displayed can lead to further unpredictable changes.

At the corresponding latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere (approximately 30 ° to 35 ° S), pollen analysis indicates increasing desiccation during the Subboreal stage, with a maximum dryness about 3200 bp.

The equatorial regions now began a marked desiccation, with a drop in level of all the great African lakes.

Radiocarbon dates of the 8.6 - metre - high lake level at Sogo Nur showed overflow conditions from 1300 to 1450, after which gradual, fluctuating, but progressive desiccation followed, and today the area is almost total desert.

This warming and desiccation trend is evident also in the subtropics of the Southern Hemisphere.

At the same time, drying and warming trends were associated with alluviation of streams and general desiccation in southern Europe and North Africa.