Sentences with phrase «grow as an antibiotic»

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

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Therefore, the antibiotic - free food market is growing rapidly as these two sectors overlap to offer opportunities to protect people.

Mutations aren't invariably lethal and a mutation that is modestly detrimental in a given situation may prove beneficial as the situation changes (e.g. antibiotic resistant germs do grow modestly slower than non-resistant parental strains; however, this deficiency in growth is advantageous compared to death from the antibiotic).

A product certified with a body such as Australian Certified Organic (ACO) is subject to a stringent auditing process and is guaranteed to be grown and processed free from GMOs, toxic herbicides and pesticides, synthetic hormones, antibiotics, artificial colours, flavours and preservatives — all of which may compromise pet health and life expectancy.

And now, as our menu has grown to include responsibly sourced grilled seafood options along with steak and all natural chicken raised without antibiotics, served in tacos, salads, bowls, and burritos, guests have found more new originals to love.

Antibiotic use is a big issue as the more we use, the more likely bugs are to grow resistant, rendering them useless.

There are no easy answers to these questions, but viability must always be considered holistically — as well as being financially viable, are we maintaining viable soils, viable animals grown in healthy systems resilient to disease without constant application of antibiotics?

Purchasing products that carry the Australian Certified Organic logo saves you time at the store and guarantees the product to be free to range, non GM, pasture - fed, water efficient and biodiversity friendly as well as grown free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics.

For meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products to be labeled organic, they must come from animals that are given organically grown feed, no growth hormones or antibiotics, and are not confined 100 percent of the time, as they often are on conventional farms, says Steven Hoffman of the Organic Center, a non-profit group that furthers research on organic food.

But the matter that caused more concern was that many of the bacteria growing out of used pacifiers were resistant to common antibiotics such as penicillin.

Antibiotics given to a baby or a breastfeeding mom can cause this, as they kill off the «good» bacteria that keep Candida from growing.

And this bone extract also matched the chemical signature of tetracycline — evidence that the antibiotic was built into the kid's bones as he grew.

The rates of gene exchange in each test remained flat and, in a few cases, actually decreased slightly as the concentration of antibiotics grew.

This approach, as opposed to killing bacteria outright, could help curtail the growing problem of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.

«By simply watching cells grow, we were able to characterize several differences between bacteria that are killed quickly and those that respond slowly to antibiotics,» said Aldridge, who serves as faculty in the Immunology and Molecular Microbiology programs at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

«Any extra bacteria embedded in the message — such as bacterial cells picked up from tabletops — wouldn't grow because they are sensitive to the antibiotic,» Walt says.

As our understanding of the profound influence of commensal microbes on the maturation of the immune system has grown, more recent iterations of this hypothesis have supported the idea that alterations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota induced by environmental factors (e.g., antibiotics, diet, vaccination, sanitation) play a central role in the regulation of allergic sensitization (5 ⇓ — 7).

When, due to any reason such as growth of other bacteria who destroy these beneficial bacteria or use of antibiotics which ultimately end up in eliminating these bacteria in addition to disease causing ones or due to bleaching or washing of stomach with medicines or excessive use of chemical laxatives or ingestion of poisonous stuff etc.; this yeast or fungi starts growing very fast and cause candida.

Antibiotic Resistance a Growing Problem - Increasingly, antibiotics are becoming less effective as germ fighters as the pathogens develop an immunity to their killing power.

Because of modern factory farming methods and the levels of pesticides used in farming, dairy products contain residues of pesticides used in growing grain that is fed to cows, as well as the hormones and antibiotics given directly to cows.

Nowadays there are many different types of antibiotics, like doxycycline and minocycline, but p.acnes is growing stronger against each of them as well.

Candida normally lives in small, harmless numbers in your vagina, 4 but medications such as antibiotics can lower the probiotics (the good bacteria) in your vagina, causing yeast to spread.5 Corticosteroids, a type of drug used to treat symptoms of various diseases by lowering your immune system, may also cause yeast to grow.

Avoid factory - farmed animal meats as it will contain much higher amounts of omega 6 fats not to mention they are pumped full of antibiotics, arsenic, and hormones to make them grow faster.

Choose meats and animal products that are grown without added hormones or antibiotics, such as sustainable pastured raised meats, poultry, and eggs.

Jody watches her crop of antibiotic - resistant Y. pestis grow, imagining the death and destruction they'll inflict when her accomplice, whom she knows only as the Angel of Death, releases them during the 4th of July celebration in Washington, DC.

Choosing the right antibiotics — or whether to prescribe them — is far from a straightforward matter, and as concern grows over excessive antibiotics use, there's a lot to consider.

I was growing very concerned and frustrated, as she was barely five pounds and had been on antibiotics for a long time.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines «organic» as «grown, raised or produced without chemical pesticides, irradiation, genetic modification, cloning, hormones or antibiotics.»

They created a giant plate on which to grow bacteria, and included in the plate increasing concentrations of an antibiotic as you moved toward the center.

Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing phenomenon that has emerged as one of the biggest public health concerns of the 21st century.

As an agricultural practice, agroecology mimics natural processes to deliver self - sustaining farming that grows a greater diversity of crops, drastically reduces artificial inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics) and recycles nutrients (plant and animal waste as manureAs an agricultural practice, agroecology mimics natural processes to deliver self - sustaining farming that grows a greater diversity of crops, drastically reduces artificial inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics) and recycles nutrients (plant and animal waste as manureas manure).