Sentences with phrase «from dangerous microbes»
In the intervening centuries, we became adept at making vaccines from dangerous microbes that we had first made harmless.
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Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.
Although the drugs cripple harmful microbes from within, bacteria that survive such sabotage tend to develop resistance that makes them even more dangerous.
When she and Duarte analyzed the microbes present, they realized the slime selectively killed some microbes, including fungi, but promoted the growth of others, perhaps to keep bacteria dangerous to the beetles or their larvae from settling on the carcass or to help the larvae better digest the meat.
Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to authorized medical procedures.
Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to...
The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.
But the suspicion — and the hope — is that beneficial microbes can be separated from the dangerous ones, and that «good» ones can be restored.
«Overly clean living can be bad for our immune systems, which need certain microbes and gut bacteria to function properly and to keep us healthy from the more dangerous pathogens.»