Sentences with phrase «even microbial life»

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That's why some scientists and philosophers are praying that we don't discover even simple microbial life somewhere like Mars or Europa.

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Researchers also found the acidity created by the lactobacilli acts as a preservative even after being subjected to high heats during the baking process, resisting microbial deterioration and increasing the shelf life of products.

Could we pick out signs of microbial life on Mars even before we go digging around in caves there?

In findings published January 10 in Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteria.

For example, one popular way to look for microbial life is to scoop up some soil, water, or even air, and extract all the DNA it contains.

Some archaea — a domain of microbial life that was little understood when the Viking landers reached their destination — live in even more extreme situations, flourishing in temperatures far above the boiling point of water and surviving in thick brine.

Because such chemistry provides energy for microbial life on Earth, the discovery makes Enceladus the top candidate for hosting life elsewhere in the solar system — besting even Jupiter's Europa, another icy moon with an ocean.

Stefanie Lutz, a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invertebrates.

The possibility that our planet was seeded with microbial life from Mars (or even, per Hoyle, from a comet) means that we can not be certain that space microbes would be incompatible with our biology.

In nature, biologists have observed that living things and their components, from pine cone scales to microbial cells and even specific proteins, can change their structures or volumes when there is a change in humidity.

«Microbial life isn't easy to see, even today, so rocks that preserve evidence of ancient bacteria are hard to find and hard to study.»

A valuable result of this work, they both agree, is that it sets up a way to test the effects of microbial therapies on human gut bacteria (even though the bugs are living in a mouse).

The nutritional and microbial gains from exchanging faeces may even have kept earwig offspring from straying and probably gave rise to family life in the species, says Körner.

By «complex life,» the researchers don't mean necessarily technologically advanced or even highly intelligent life, but rather life forms that are above the microbial level and form stable food chains like those found in ecosystems on Earth.

A mission to explore the frozen north pole of Mars as part of the search for past, or even present, microbial life has been selected by NASA for launch in 2007.