Sentences with phrase «how microbes»

BIO * 235, Microbiology (4 credits / 6 contact hours) $ $ Laboratory Course Fee Gen Ed Competencies: Scientific Knowledge & Understanding, Scientific Reasoning This is an introduction to general microbiology.The course is designed to meet the needs of pre-allied health students as well as biology or science majors.Topics include the structure, physiology, and molecular biology of microorganisms as well as the interactions between microbes and their hosts, including their role in the environment.Students also learn how microbes are studied and how they can cause disease and yet are essential to human well - being.

Here's an update post, April, 2015: Gut Bugs, Probiotics, Prebiotics... And how our microbes make us who we are.

A disruption of how microbes set up shop in the body can interfere how the immune system works later on.

Many years later, Jacob approached Dr Steven Otwell and Dr. Wayne Marshal, both of whom were leading researchers on how microbes affect food.

So, let's talk about how microbes inside the cancer cells partially block the production of ATP energy.

The ICRF researcher who discovered how microbes block the ATP energy also developed about 25 different ways to kill these microbes while they are inside the cancer cells (the microbe is actually a bacteria — Helicobacter Pylori) thereby reverting the cancer cells into normal cells.

But more interesting is how microbes interfere with cellular metabolism leading to ketone generation, hence DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis).

Three researchers at the forefront of research on the microbiome - brain connection recently spoke with The Kavli Foundation about how microbes communicate with the brain and whether we can modify the gut microbiome to treat disorders of the brain and mind.

Colder Than Ice: Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Subfreezing Conditions, Scientific American Guest Blog, October 2013.

«The UMI highlights the need for new imaging and omics technologies, such as those currently being developed at PNNL, to understand how microbes function and interact in complex environments and how they are impacted by climate change and other perturbations,» said Jansson, who also leads the Microbiomes in Transition initiative at PNNL.

That adaptation to radiation hints at how some microbes might have survived a journey to Earth aboard ancient asteroids, according to the theory known as Panspermia.

Understanding of how microbes are distributed in the sea can hopefully be used to provide future models for climate changes.

Sari Peura is trying to understand how microbes control the carbon cycle in habitats where the food web is sustained by external organic carbon inputs.

Alas, Clarke says, figuring out how microbes manipulate the mind from start to finish «is still a work in progress.»

Many of the microbes in these environments are poorly known and understood and Sari hopes that her findings will contribute to understanding how microbes are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from -LSB-...]

To address this growing problem, NIAID is funding and conducting research on many aspects of antimicrobial (drug) resistance, including basic research on how microbes develop resistance, development of new and faster diagnostics, and clinical trials designed to find new vaccines and treatments effective against drug - resistant microbes.

Understanding how these microbes interact could help scientists design synthetic communities for use in biotechnology, turning tragedy into progress.

He has helped generate and interpret mountains of data through microbial gene sequencing efforts, showing how microbes influence human well - being.

«Understanding how the environment in which microbes live leads to new properties could help us to predict how microbes will adapt to the use of antibiotics, antimicrobial hand soaps, disinfectants and other products intended to control their spread.»

Should we seek to colonize another planet, understanding how microbes help make Earth habitable might allow us to create more Earth - like conditions on other planets — conditions necessary to sustain human life.

Sari is studying how microbes are mitigating these greenhouse gas emissions and how predicted environmental changes, such as increased carbon flow to lakes, might affect these processes.

We are unlocking the secrets of how these microbes affect coastal ecosystems.

«ASM is honored to have been chosen by The Kavli Foundation to lead this effort to bring cross-cutting research into the forefront to better understand how microbes interact with each other and their environments,» said Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, ASM.

Without these tools, scientists are less able to link specific genes to cell behavior or determine how microbes interact within their environment and with one another — critical information for understanding how ocean ecosystems function.

Decades ago, they really give birth to the field of molecular biology, by studying viruses that infect bacteria and understanding how microbes work.

Recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of life on our planet is microbial; however, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

Nanoscience has a role in understanding how those microbes talk to plants, how they share metabolites, and what regulates nitrogen fixation.

However, still lacking is an understanding of how microbes function — how they communicate with each other and their hosts, how they interact in complex communities, and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.

Melissa studies how the microbes and nutrients added to the ocean by certain farming practices influence the neighboring coral reefs.

The data would help researchers understand how microbes capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how they break down organic matter so that plants can access its nutrients, and how they neutralize soil toxins known to threaten human health.

We could build these complicated three - dimensional pictures of how microbes are influencing the area around the root and soil.

In the Hoffman laboratory, we study how microbes contribute to chronic diseases of children.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, something called a methyl radical.

Understanding how microbes affect health and the biosphere requires an international initiative, argue Nicole Dubilier, Margaret McFall - Ngai and Liping Zhao.

Now scientists have figured out how both microbes pitch in to keep the mealybugs well fed — a finding that could offer a glimpse at how our own mitochondria evolved.

Koo, of U. Penn's School of Dental Medicine, has spent 15 years studying how microbes construct the biofilms, also known as plaque, that have plagued teeth since H. sapiens invented agriculture, bringing large quantities of starch into the diet.

The studies open up new opportunities to uncover microbial genomes from other environments, revealing how microbes alter global carbon and nitrogen cycles, how microbial metabolism evolved, and how so many different kinds of microbes can coexist, says biological oceanographer Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

For MSU's McCabe, the conflicting findings have led her into a whole new study of how microbes help regulate bone density.

Schulze - Makuch and his colleague Alfonso Davila of the SETI Institute in California, investigated how microbes adapt to dryness here on Earth.

Short of reimagining the lab mouse, others say, investigators need strategies for monitoring how microbes might be influencing their small research subjects.

In understanding how microbes make B12 we are learning new ways of doing chemistry, for example, making carbon - carbon bonds — the essence of organic chemistry — and large ring compounds.

«Chemists settle longstanding debate on how methane is made biologically: In surprise twist, story of how microbes produce methane ends with uncommon «radical».»

It also provides insight into how microbes and oil interact under water, he said.

Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, something called a methyl radical.

Researchers are still piecing together the complex role that microbes in and on human bodies play in human immunity, and how those microbes respond to stress.

«If you compare the fuel we use with the devices we have, we're very limited,» says Leonard Tender, an electrochemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «We can look at how microbes do it and use them as a model.»

It's early days, but so far, the results are compelling, says neuroscientist John Cryan of University College Cork in Ireland, who has been trying to clarify how microbes influence the brain.

Northen and his collaborators deployed a set of tools that he calls «exometabolomics» which harnesses the analytical capabilities of the latest mass spectrometry techniques to quantitatively measure how each microbes and the biocrust community transforms complex mixtures of metabolites, in this case, from soil.

Carrie Arnold's article on how microbes inside us help shape our evolution emphasised the link between our microbiome and health...

In future studies, the team plans to use the model to better understand how microbes, host factors and inflammatory markers interact to produce the hallmarks of inflammatory disease in the intestine.