Sentences with phrase «little about the microbes»
Researchers have determined the species of such unculturable microbes by identifying characteristic genetic fingerprints, but these tell them little about the microbes» lifestyles — which chemicals they burn for energy, for example, and how one species lives off the waste of another.
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Earlier studies have linked the human microbiome — that is, the collection of microbes living in and on the human body — to a variety of health conditions, but little is known about the role of the penile microbiome as it relates to men's health.
Yet scientists know very little about the rules the microbes live by.
And one of the things he found was this fascinating little rod - shaped microbe that grew really fast in his lab where there is a lot of oxygen and which he could feed just about anything.
More than 50 million different species of single - celled microbes live on Earth, yet we know very little about the communities they inhabit.
They are ubiquitous, incredibly diverse — more than 50 million different species of microbes inhabit our Earth — and yet we know very little about them.
Background & aims: Interactions between commensal microbes and the immune system are tightly regulated and maintain intestinal homeostasis, but little is known about these interactions in humans.
But comparatively little is known about how plants communicate with microbes belowground.
Currently there are about 400 coastal areas, with a combined area larger than the size of Oregon, with such poor water quality, with so little oxygen that only microbes can survive in it.