Sentences with phrase «low oxygen environment»

Blood Clams: These clams live in low oxygen environments, which means they ingest more viruses and bacteria to get the nutrients they need.

Mitochondria (in blue) are the cell's energy boosters, and a new study suggests that mice with faulty mitochondria can be helped by low oxygen environments.

Semenza says scientists have long known that low oxygen environments affect tumor growth, but, in the case of advanced tumors, there was a paradox.

«For example, in people with latent TB infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria are walled in by clumps of immune and other body cells in what is thought to be an extremely low oxygen environment.

The methane in gas hydrates is dominantly generated by microbial consortia degrading organic matter in low oxygen environments, with the methane itself produced by methanogenic archaea.

Newborn babies are born with an abundance of red blood cells because of the low oxygen environment of your womb.

This results in cancer cells needing to adapt to low oxygen environment.

Spaceflights and reduced gravity habitats will expose astronauts also to low oxygen environments.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered cells with a «built - in genetic circuit» that produces a molecule that inhibits the ability of tumors to survive and grow in their low oxygen environment.

How the spotted, gray felines survive in such low oxygen environments has puzzled scientists for years.

Dr. Blüml said that the amount of oxygen delivered to the fetus's developing brain in utero is quite low, and our brains have evolved to optimize development in that low oxygen environment.

«Our study pinpoints a novel way in which tumor cells not only survive but actually continue to divide in spite of a low oxygen environment.

Now, scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel mechanism that selectively operates in hypoxic tumors to enable tumor cells to thrive and continue to proliferate despite a low oxygen environment.

A majority of these genes are involved in metabolism and presumably allow the amoeba to use bacterial metabolic pathways to adapt to the low oxygen environment of the gut.

Peppermint extract is extremely effective at killing anaerobic bacteria, the type of bacteria that thrive in a low oxygen environment such as the mouth, and can cause gum disease.

Cancer cells thrive in high - sugar, low oxygen environments.