Sentences with phrase «eating microbes»

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

Just as the plastic - eating microbes are under study to find super-enzymes that can be of use in plastic recycling processes, the many evolutionary tricks of tree - eating fungi will inspire scientists looking for answers to how we can fuel the future.

Now full of metal and oxygen - eating microbes, the sea's fish thrown in for sport are suffocating»

Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane - eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

Understanding methane - eating microbes» behavior is critical, marine geochemist Evan Solomon of the University of Washington, in Seattle, writes in a commentary accompanying the new study in Nature Geoscience.

«Metal - eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet's iron deposits.»

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.

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

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

View a slide show of oil - eating microbes

In one of the most disturbing (if fantastic) scenarios, metal - eating microbes might be exploited to infest and destroy computers.

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.

These are boom times for oil - eating microbes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that has added some 600 million liters of hydrocarbons to those waters.

In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen - eating microbes.

Astrobiologists note that methane - eating microbes are found on Earth, and posit that similar life forms could evolve on Titan.

Microscopic creatures called protists eat the microbes.

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

Last Thursday I received an email from the media coordinator for Scientific American about a brain - eating microbe.

Not exact matches

There are known microbes that can eat renewable resources and produce usable fuel, so why aren't companies commercializing that practice?

No matter what you do, no matter what you eat, animals, insects, microbes etc..

High - fiber diet keeps gut microbes from eating the colon's lining, protects against infection, animal study shows,

University of Michigan Health System, High - Fiber Diet Keeps Gut Microbes From Eating The Colon's Lining, Protects Against Infection, Animal Study Shows

Joey, It's my understanding that the selenium content of butter would relate closely to the amount avaiable in the particualr soil the cows ate their grass from and the microbes in that soil.....

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.

Cannibals — whether microbes or Methodists — who eat their own relatives can also experience decreases in a measure of evolutionary success known as inclusive fitness, in which the survival of an individual's genes, whether they're from an offspring or a collateral relative (like a brother or cousin) is the true measure of evolutionary success.

While eating the oil, the microbes consume the oxygen in the water, potentially asphyxiating aerobic organisms.

Those microbes could change the diversity of our guts, even if we only ever eat low - fiber white bread.

He and his team are probing the control systems that allow the microbe to eat many different kinds of sugar and transform them into the thousands of molecules that make up the bacterium.

The microbe efficiently eats these sugars before other bacteria get to them, starving out bad bugs and aiding the infant that serves as its host.

The animals that got microbes from the gastric bypass donors lost about 5 % of their body weight in 2 weeks — even though they weren't eating any less than controls.

He also hopes to expand his analysis to include MS patients from around the world, who eat different diets and may have different gut bacteria, to help pinpoint the microbes that may be contributing to the disease.

Many sap - eating insects rely on helpful bacteria, or symbionts, to make amino acids, but none of them has the citrus mealybug's nested microbes.

The immune system may kick in when animals eat, releasing reactive oxygen molecules to kill microbes on food, helping to protect from disease.

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

The offspring feed on anal secretions from their parents, which provide both nutrition and starter doses of the wood - digesting gut microbes that will eventually let the youngsters eat their way into homes of their own.

A top - secret government lab might be her savior: Sophie is hired to fly across the Earth spraying a genetically engineered microbe that eats plastic.

Last, when only the skeleton is left, microbes eat the bone lipids, animals like tube worms live off them, and the zombie worms eat on.

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

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.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

And far from depending on organic matter from the surfaceworld, the deepest - dwelling microbes both eat and breathe geologicingredients — like iron, manganese, and sulfur — and possibly hydrogen.

In the hot, radioactive world miles below us, microbe hunters encounter bizarre bugs that eat and breathe geologic ingredients like iron, manganese, and sulfur and, gasp, maybe our ancestors

«Traditionally, researchers have applied broad categories when studying soil carbon and microbes, like grouping the foods and people at a buffet into broad groups and measuring the total calories each group of people eats,» said Northen.

«Essentially, microbes won't eat each other's lunch if they depend on the other for a specific metabolite,» Northen said, describing this possible mechanism in support of soil biodiversity.

Strong evidencethat microbes could survive in an even more austere environment wasuncovered in 1995, when a team working at the Department of Energy» sHanford Reservation in Washington State found rock - eating organismsthat get their sustenance from elemental - mineral energy sources.

He is now working on microbes that eat pollution, excrete biofuels, and more.

A microbe that «eats» both methane and iron: microbiologists have long suspected its existence, but were not able to find it — until now.

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

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.

Microbes may even be eating the stuff.