Sentences with phrase «group of microbes»

A group of microbes known as sulfate - reducing bacteria uses sulfate deposited from the atmosphere to metabolize organic material.

Asgard is a group of microbes, described for the first time in the journal Nature this week, that may well include the organism that gave rise to all complex life — from the tiniest eukaryotes to the tallest redwoods, the dinosaurs and us.

Additional tests indicated that a separate group of microbes, ones that make their living by consuming sulfates, was also inhabiting the heavily fractured rocks.

In a new study, published in Nature this week, an international research group led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a group of microbes that provide new insights as to how complex cellular life emerged.

The team decided to test it because it belonged to a group of microbes that scientists posited had lost their mitochondria.

Many of these organisms belong to a special group of microbes known as fungi.

To get a broader perspective, Zhulin and postdoctoral fellow Kristin Wuichet spent the past 7 years analyzing 450 genomes from bacteria and another group of microbes, the archaea.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

Some were for elevated lead levels, the problem in Flint, but the data set also included violations for coliform bacteria — a group of microbes that is easy to detect and serves as an indicator of bacterial contamination in general — nitrates, arsenic, and other contaminants.

They work with the Shewanella oneidensis species of bacteria, one of a group of microbes that essentially «breathe» rocks.

Understanding the role of each group of microbes in the breast milk would also provide leads to the pharmaceutical industry in harnessing microbial power to boost our immune system from various illnesses and allergies.

This is revealing many undescribed taxa and extensive cryptic speciation — groups of microbes that look very similar but are distinct species.

Among the biggest threats are fungi and oomycetes, similar but distinct groups of microbes, which cause plant diseases.

They reported that samples from ICU patients showed lower levels of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes bacteria, two of the largest groups of microbes in the gut, and higher abundances of Proteobacteria, which include many pathogens.

A different group of bacteria, also relying on the phytoplankton for food and energy, appear to compete with the diatoms for the precious vitamin, and all three groups of microbes are competing for iron, which, due to the extreme remoteness of the Southern Ocean, is a scarce and consequently invaluable resource.

For example, scientists who study microbes need to be working with animal scientists and physicians to understand what's driving interactions between microbes and animals, and between different groups of microbes.

And, in the biotech industry, there are certain vitamins made by groups of microbes.

For example, in waste - water treatment plants and oil refineries, there are groups of microbes that work together in an assembly line, each eating the waste products of the preceding one, leading to the final processing of waste into something like methane that is released into the environment.

We each have a varied grouping of these microbes that make up our own individual bacterial profile (or microbiome).

Not exact matches

Female striped plateau lizards may be able to protect their eggs with microbes, a group of scientists is finding.

Scientists reached this conclusion by transferring microbes from bypass - treated obese mice to a group of lean mice raised in sterile conditions that left them with no intestinal bacteria at all.

New methods for the removal of contaminating DNA from microbes and present - day humans that were developed by the Leipzig group have now enabled the researchers to sequence the genomes of five Neandertals from Belgium, France, Croatia, and Russia that are between 39,000 and 47,000 years old.

Whereas most traditional antibiotics target specific groups of bacteria and kill by disrupting key mechanisms of those microbes, SAAP - 148 is more of a generalist.

Nathan Cude works in Novozymes» agbiotech division in Durham, North Carolina in the microbial discovery group, which isolates and identifies thousands of microbes collected from soil samples around the United States.

Animals in each of the three groups — gastric bypass, sham surgery, and restricted diets — were killed and samples of their gut microbe communities diluted.

«We have found groups of genes that may play a role in shaping the development of imbalanced gut microbes.»

The mice were divided into two groups — one that was given only anti-inflammatory bacteria and the other that received a mix of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory microbes that typically co-exist in the intestines.

We've started with discrete projects looking at specific species or groups of species, including microbes and, in a different experiment, insects.

Sequencing data revealed that while the BaAka and Bantu gut microbes were from similar bacterial species, the abundance of traditional bacterial groups was diminished in the Bantu.

«Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and soil microbes are typically studied as broad groups, and we wanted to examine the specific relationship between the diversity of soils metabolites and the diversity of microbes.»

«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.

So his team sifted through genetic information from 45,000 microbes, flagging groups of genes with unknown functions that were located near known defense - related genes.

«Microbes are a very diverse group of organisms.

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.

The new findings, recently published in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, revealed increases in the numbers of Proteobacteria, a large phylum [group] of microbes, in the intestines of mice drinking water supplemented with Splenda.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

Then they divided the baby plants into groups, placing dead leaves from healthy cacao plants in one set of pots, mixed leaves from the forest floor in another set and no leaves in the third set, giving different sets of microbes the first chance to land on and colonize the «virgin» leaves of the young plants.

The two groups of offspring will differ only in whether they carry that gene, not in their resident microbes, allowing the influence of the host gene and the microbes to be disentangled.

THE microbes living in our gut could vary with the seasons, according to evidence from a group of hunter - gatherers.

They then split each of these two strains into three groups and to each group added genes for one of three different metabolic pathways that allow the microbes to make chemical precursors for either gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel.

In the second study, Thomas Gajewski at the University of Chicago and colleagues noticed differences in how quickly tumours grew in two groups of mice with different sets of gut microbes.

In a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server, Hammer and his team report that they found no sign of what he calls «resident» microbes — a group of organisms that have co-evolved with their hosts.

For many microbes, the expansion of growing cell groups toward a source of limiting nutrients tends to promote the spontaneous segregation of different strains due to genetic drift along the advancing group front [36].

Brady says his group's findings suggest that scientists have yet to characterize most of the lipopeptides produced by soil microbes.

The genomic content of the second group suggests that these microbes are capable of slow growth and survival in energy - limited environments, and rapid growth in energy - rich environments.

Terry Hwa: I think the new study of the microbiome will show us two new aspects of microbial life: One is about the phenomena that only emerge when microbes are together in a group; another is about the phenomena that only make sense in the context of a group.

«Microbes play a significant role in the health of the digestive tract and many digestive diseases result when the microbial environment is out of balance,» said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project's Implementation Group.

Publishing in the journal Cell a group of scientists have published their research working on mice which reports that a high fat diet of the mother can bring about a shift in gut microbes that negatively impacts the social behaviour of the offspring mice.

Groups of geologists and chemists proposed alternative ways that the carbonate globules and the organic molecules could have formed without the need of Martian microbes.

While the administration of singular or small groups of select beneficial microbes may not have a major impact on stable phyla, probiotic intervention studies (as discussed previously) have taught us that species - level application of microbes are not without clinical relevance.