Sentences with phrase «if microbes»

In 1930, it was proven that if the microbes inside the cancer cells are killed, the cancer cells will REVERT into normal cells.

«We don't know if microbes are somehow causing conditions to shift in the gut that would cause cancer or if there are conditions that are associated with cancer that would increase the openness of the gut to particular microbes.

In particular, Hadany and Lewin - Epstein, with Ranit Aharonov, a computer scientist visiting the university from IBM Research, wondered if microbes could manipulate their hosts to encourage them to help others.

He wondered if microbes had driven the behavior of the flies.

The responses suggest that if microbes are found on Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus or elsewhere, «we'll take the news rather well,» said Michael Varnum.

If microbes influence social behaviors such as altruism, doing things that change our microbial balance — such as taking antibiotics or probiotics — could potentially reshape how we treat one another by weakening or strengthening the manipulations that are part of our normal behavior.

If microbes once survived in these pockets on early Earth, they could potentially have done so on other planets too, Airo says.

If microbes help melt the snow, that water might help even more algae grow.

If microbes can find other sources of the nutrient, he says, they will inevitably use those first.

If too few antibiotics were available within days, or if the microbes were resistant, thousands might die.

Jenkins adapted it for growing algae far more efficiently than if the microbes were grown the traditional way in lagoons.

Subsequent literature searches led to the discovery that sugar cane, an agriculturally important crop, is a nitrogen fixer that contains bacterial endophytes, and Rout became curious if the microbes she and her colleague Tom Chrzanowski (The University of Texas Arlington) discovered in invasive Sorghum might be providing similar benefits to this invasive plant.

If microbes could be convinced to do the same — to donate their electrons to an electrode rather than to random panhandling molecules — they, too, could supply us with electricity.

The only plausible way that could happen would be if the microbes were subsisting on the petrogenic carbon, which would have shed its radioactive signature long ago, thanks to its subsurface journey.

The question is, if microbes have the potential to decompose nearly everything, why do they stop short?

To see if this was true, Lloyd's team studied a lime kiln site in the UK's Peak District to see if microbes could be found growing in conditions similar to those that would be expected in a nuclear disposal site.

The goals of the study, published April 11, 2018 in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, were to find out if microbes were required for digestion and absorption of fats, to begin to learn which microbes were involved, and to assess the role of diet - induced microbes on the digestion and uptake of fats.

Dirk Schulze - Makuch of Washington State University and colleagues argue that if microbes are currently present on Mars, they may be lying dormant to survive the planet's extreme dryness and cold.

Venter's team claims that the microbe can be used to produce clean, green algal biofuels; however, what will happen if this microbe escapes into the wild and contaminates non-synthetic algae with its DNA?

If the microbe is any indication of the sort of life that awaits discovery on Mars or elsewhere, he says, good luck to the robot sent to detect it.

Not exact matches

Why did god design us an immune system that adapts to the evolution of microbes, if there isn't evolution?

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

You would not survive if your intestines were not filled with microbes and bacteria breaking down food for you.

Soils, if managed appropriately, can capture and store carbon when photosynthetically - derived sugars are feed to soil microbes.

Lactic acid bacteria are extremely successful bacterial competitors, and any little bit of dust that might be in a jar with some stray yeast or bacteria that makes it in there will not stand up to the power of the LAB, or it won't matter if they do (very few microbes are actually harmful to us).

If you notice gas and bloating with the coconut milk it may be due to the guar and xanthum gum being used as fuel by bad microbes.

If the mother is breastfeeding and she gets sick or there is sickness in the family, that is all the more reason to continue to bedshare because what is occurring of course is the mother is making antibodies specific to the particular microbes in which the baby is confronted and lives and is exposed.

If your water supply is clean — free of bacteria and other microbes — and safe to drink, you can wash bottles the way you would all your other dishes.

And these microbes are partially responsible for slower transit time -LRB-: If you haven't already incorporated stone fruit (plums, apricots, peaches) and pears into her diet, that's one of the first things you can try.

However, the «cult of natural birth» filmmakers were interviewing scientists, perinatologists, nurses, midwives even an OB if I remember correctly about how the foundation of the immune system (the transfer of microbes from mother to baby) might be facilitated through natural birth OR by artificial, mechanical means after a Cesarean birth.

Also, if he is allergic to mold, dust mites and microbes you need to find something that will not trigger reactions.

Also, if mother has not been in the hospital herself for a few days, her immune system — and hence her breastmilk — will not contain antibodies to many of the threatening microbes floating around the hospital.

If the child is delivered via C - section, they will not get the beneficial microbes, and that puts them at a greater risk of illness, considering how important the intestines are to our immune function.

If the mother is breastfeeding her baby, she will raise antibodies in response to all of the microbes that they come in contact with and transfer them to the baby.

remember tho, even if disposables went biodegradable, they would still need the presence of oxygen and aerobic and anaerobic microbes to break down, something in short supply in landfills.

Varnum and colleagues asked about 500 online volunteers — all in the United States — to describe how they would react if they learned scientists had discovered alien microbes.

If these dark streaks are flowing water, microbes could possibly live there, although life would be unlikely to originate in such a harsh environment, says Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who led NASA's Phoenix lander mission on Mars.

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We could, for example, put microbes in packaging so they can emit audible warnings if food goes off.

Even if some survive, he adds, future missions could distinguish between earthly and martian microbes by sequencing their genomes.

Life on Earth could have been seeded by just one microbe - laden rock, but there are too many rocks to check, even if we had a foolproof test for extraterrestrial life.

Next up in the meeting, Kembel wonders if the presence of humans in a room affects which microbes flourish and which die out.

If there is no subsequent radioactive release, that demonstrates that there are living microbes on Mars.

«If you open the freezer door, you thaw permafrost soil that's been frozen for a long time, and the organic matter in it is decomposed by microbes,» Walter Anthony said.

Microbes are known to exist in tar pits, but it was not known if natural asphalt pools, with their more toxic composition, could harbour life.

«We were curious if the transmission of microbes is enough to explain the variation that we see in the microbiome composition among individual fish.»

«Message: if you're a microbe hoping to invade a new bit of skin, the forehead is not a great place to start.»

These microbes may not have been able to adapt to sulfur deprivation as well as their wild counterparts «because they can't unpackage their DNA as readily if the structure has been changed,» Reeve says.

Those microbes could change the diversity of our guts, even if we only ever eat low - fiber white bread.

But that light provides only blurry views of microbes in deeper tissue — if it can be seen at all.