Sentences with phrase «made by these microbes»

Work on methane is close to yielding a tool for distinguishing gas made by microbes from «abiotic» methane made from mineral reactions deep in Earth.

The first opsin — the light - sensitive protein made by microbes — had been identified in 1971, the same year Deisseroth was born.

Tubes are typically three micrometers wide and look like those in modern volcanic rock, which are thought to be made by microbes that consume the rock's nutrients.

The methane is made by the microbes» deeper cousins, and they are numerous.

The total amount of methane made by these microbes is probably greater than the mass of all known reserves of coal, gas, and oil.

The team collected samples of methane from settings such as lakes, swamps, natural gas reservoirs, the digestive tracts of cows, and deep ancient groundwater, as well as methane made by microbes in the lab.

At the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting here earlier this month, he proposed that chemists rally around an initiative to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products: the diverse small molecules made by microbes, plants, and animals.

The team collected samples of methane from settings such as lakes, swamps, natural gas reservoirs, the digestive tracts of cows, and deep ancient groundwater, as well as methane made by microbes in the lab.

Isotope Data Suggests Fossil Fuels Not to Blame for Increase Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes).

Not exact matches

By making sure desirable microbes flourish in their proper balance, the supplements will help ensure that bad ones, like the ones that cause yeast infections, can't get a toehold.

So while the use of copper also helps PangeaBed tackle the unsanitary environments we sleep in by killing microbes on contact, using copper also makes the comfort and quality of our sleep better.

We can make a space shuttle land on a dime after circling the heavens, but we have no cure for the common cold; the strongest athlete can be struck down by an invisible microbe.

The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheeseMicrobes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheesemicrobes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

Lacticin 3147, a tiny protein made up of two peptide units, has been shown by researchers at the Teagasc Dairy Products Research Centre in Ireland and University College Cork to be effective in suppressing microbes in foods.

It just makes so much sense to me that the spontaneous natural proliferation of microbes that create lacto fermentation happens simply by adding water and some salt to produce, and those same bacteria that preserve and increase the nutrition of the food make our bodies benefit in a multitude of ways too!

He had long been fascinated by waterborne microbes, so he set his sights on the organisms that make their homes in the shower.

Huge successes in the isolation and cultivation of marine microbial strains have been made by the EC - funded MaCuMBA (Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications) project, which aims to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation - dependent strategies.

MICROBE KILLER An antibiotic candidate called teixobactin is made by the naturally occurring soil bacterium Eleftheria terrae, shown here.

Microbes can help wind and solar by storing energy as methane; viruses make clean and cheap batteries.

By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

In the 1990s a new technique emerged that allowed scientists to streamline the operation by making powerful microbes, or «superbugs,» that could perform the necessary processes all on their own.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

The sulphur - containing molecule methyl mercaptan is naturally produced in significant quantities on Earth only by microbes, including some that make their pungent presence known in the human body.

Chang's team addressed those limitations by making a new kind of bacterial «gun - for - hire» that can sense an infection, swim toward it and kill off the disease - causing microbes.

The equipment, fastidiously prepared to make sure that it does not contaminate the lake with microbes from the surface, was approved last year by the parties to the Antarctic Treaty.

In deeper parts of the ocean, the methane released from the ocean floor would likely never make it up to the atmosphere, since it would get used up by microbes before it reached the surface.

There are two main problems caused by bacteria and other microbes in water: they can make the water toxic, and make it smell bad.

But by the end of the experiment — when performance was at its peak — one species, Brevibacillus agri, made up the majority of the electron - producing microbes.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

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.

It appears to have acquired several genes that make it more pathogenic, however, probably in a process called horizontal gene transfer, by which microbes exchange bits of genetic information.

One of the key processes in the research was comparing the genome assemblies of the fungal enzymes to those of other biomass - degrading microbes, made possible only by recent breakthroughs in genome sequencing techniques,

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them....

«Vitamin B12 is the most complex single molecular species made by any organism, and we want to know how on earth a little microbe manages to put such an exquisitely complicated structure together,» he says.

The microbes need to increase output of thebaine by a factor of 100,000 for drug companies to be interested in using them to make medicines.

Microbes, he argued, don't just happen to spoil food when they gorge on it; they have evolved to make it unappetizing to large animals as fast as possible — for instance by producing bad - tasting compounds — so they can keep the meal to themselves.

When an infected female mosquito bites a human, the microbe enters the victim's bloodstream and makes for the liver, where it multiplies by the tens of thousands.

Estimated portion of hard cheeses sold in the U.S. that are made with enzymes created by genetically modified microbes

Additional tests indicated that a separate group of microbes, ones that make their living by consuming sulfates, was also inhabiting the heavily fractured rocks.

These microbes make their living by consuming methane and sulfate compounds dissolved in the mineral - rich waters flowing through the immense networks of fractures in the crust.

If they are right, it opens the door to the idea of one day preventing the disorder altogether by making sure children's guts are populated with the right microbes.

This made them suspect that by sharing exposure to various types of bacteria, the TAC mice had acquired microbes from JAX mice that somehow enhanced their immunity to tumors.

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.

And while scientists have made strides in recognizing various strains of gut microbes by identifying their molecular DNA signature, they still have a long way to go to determine what each does and how each functions, Bienenstock says.

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

And, in the biotech industry, there are certain vitamins made by groups of microbes.

With the help of microbes, we could decrease our carbon footprint on the planet, by using renewable resources to make a lot of the fuels and chemicals we currently get from petroleum.

Potential for Developing Low - Input Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropical Andes by Making Use of Native Microbial Resources — Luis Andrés Yarzábal, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Humans rely on their native microbiota for nutrition and resistance to colonization by pathogens [3 — 6]; furthermore, recent discoveries have shown that symbiotic microbes make essential contributions to the development, metabolism, and immune response of the host [7 — 10].