Sentences with phrase «eaten by microbes»

It doesn't simulate the formation of slicks or tarballs, and the dye doesn't get eaten by microbes or weathered by waves.

Not exact matches

Well basically it is a lot easier on your digestive system to eat baked goods that have been pre-digested by the microbes in your starter.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

In the hydrocarbon buffet provided by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, microbes chose to rapidly eat light gases first

Levy is fond of citing a French study showing that when people whose guts were plagued by resistant E. coli ate only sterilized food, the nature of the prevailing microbes changed.

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

Working with mice bred to have no gut microbes of their own, Gordon's graduate student Laura Blanton fed them a mash of the same food typically eaten by Malawian children.

Offshore, at least, it is rapidly being broken down by oil - eating microbes.

First Steps: In 2006 Burd was moved by clutter at home to study plastic - eating microbes.

The ultimate aim of this work is to improve our understanding of the safe disposal of radioactive waste underground by studying the unusual diet of these hazardous waste eating microbes.

Because the molecule only lights up when eaten by healthy, hungry TB bacteria, it won't flag microbes that have been crippled or killed by antibiotics as typical tests do.

By sequencing the genome of this oil - eating microbe, the scientists hope to harness its power to help clean up future oil spills.

Eating food or drinking water contaminated by shiga - producing bacteria typically causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloody diarrhea, and the microbes can be lethal, often by damaging the kidneys so severely that the organs shut down.

Even insects that ate GDL but no pathogen died sooner than control animals, their bodies ravaged by opportunistic microbes.

Those that got microbes from the obese twins increased their body fat by 10 % on average, even though they were eating the same amount of food.

The health benefits of Omega - 3 are well known, but it's becoming a real problem that they are currently synthesised by marine microbes, even though we actually eat them from fish.

Microbes eat methane in the water and dissolved organic material brought in by the freshwater from the surface.

The ammonium is likely produced by bacteria that eat dead microbes in the lake.

Microbes gain energy by eating the organic matter and using oxygen to respire.

Our good - guy microbes also help determine how full we feel by regulating hormones that send signals to our brain to stop eating.

If you eat one meal with fermented foods every day, your gut will be dominated by beneficial probiotic species of microbes, and they will start to build and make all kinds of essential nutrients like B12, vitamin B6, vitamin K2, and biotin.

So by just eating fiber, you are producing more healthy microbes in your gut to keep you healthy.

Also, when using things that kill microbes and can get inside of cancer cells by themselves, if a person quits eating and drinking at 6:00 PM, then takes the liquid cancer products first thing in the morning and continues the liquid and food fast until NOON, these products should be more effective because the cancer cells get «thirsty» and gobble up the liquid product that kills microbes (e.g. colloidal silver).

When eating yogurt or kefir alone, most of the probiotic microbes are killed by normal digestive processes — resistant starch protects them.

Because they have the gut microbes that dine on grass, passed to them by their mothers, eating grass is normal behavior among wolves and other wild canides.

Row - bot cleans dirty water and powers itself by eating microbes.

These dispersants are intended to break the oil up into smaller bits, which can sink into the water and get eaten up by microbes there.

In some cases, a traveler may have picked up a bacteria or microbe elsewhere and only by washing your hands thoroughly before touching your food or eating anything can you be sure you haven't contributed to the problem.