Sentences with phrase «many other microbes»

The higher acidity of the souring process keeps other microbes (that can be harmful to humans) from forming.

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 it does not disappoint as it not only gives you humidified air but also uses UV Technology to kill bacteria, fungus, viruses and many other microbes.

The antibiotics will kill the harmful bacteria and other microbes in your stomach that caused the food poisoning.

In other words, this will support prevent the spread of flu, cold, and other microbes to your little one.

Dry climates might be full of dust and other microbes.

As some biology textbooks and studies continue to sidestep the details of the amoeba and other microbes in favor of focusing on larger organisms, Spiegel sees a tragic irony: Amoebas and their ilk can best position budding researchers to explore the costs of sex, its evolution and alternatives to problems it may or may not solve.

«[This] tells us that methane - making microbial activity is very limited but it doesn't weigh in on the possibility that there are other microbes that don't produce methane still in existence in the subsurface,» says team member Chris Webster.

Other scientists (including Jay Keasling, last year's DISCOVER Scientist of the Year) are having great success adding handfuls of genes to E. coli and other microbes to make a variety of valuable products, including medicines and jet fuel.

Yet, whereas the cells of bacteria and other microbes are small and simple, all visible life, including us humans, is generally made up of large and complex cell types.

Brodie suspects that low - level exposure to other microbes may fortify our immune systems.

«It also may be possible to modify the test so that it could be used to detect pathogens other than viruses, including bacteria, fungi and other microbes, as well as genes that would indicate the pathogen is resistant to treatment with antibiotics or other drugs,» said co-author Kristine Wylie, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics.

A hundred trillion bacteria, viruses, and other microbes, collectively known as the human microbiome, live on and inside our bodies.

The animals also were living in a sterile environment without other microbes.

Microbiome refers to the populations of bacteria and other microbes that live within all animals.

Microbiome studies are demolishing the medical community's traditional «us versus them» attitude toward bacteria and other microbes.

Single - celled though they may be, bacteria and other microbes are far from simple.

Dectin - 1 previously has been studied as a receptor that recognizes structures on fungi and other microbes and triggers immune responses to them.

They would be created through the process of lateral gene transfer, in which microbes incorporate loose bits of genetic material from other microbes into their own.

Lactoferrin A human - milk protein that binds iron, helps the body fight Shigella, Salmonella, E. coli, and other microbes that feed on iron.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

These genes are custom add - ons that specific strains have acquired over time, from their environment or from other microbes — something like an expansion pack for a card game.

THEY may look like any other microbe, but don't be fooled.

Bacteria and other microbes are the only thing that will ultimately clean up the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Fetuses are bacterially naive, with little exposure to pathogens or other microbes before birth.

A hundred trillion bacteria, viruses, and other microbes — collectively known as the human microbiome — live on and inside our bodies.

Bacteria and other microbes are all around us but we only know about 1 per cent of them.

While scientists have made great progress in identifying the individual members of the gut microbiome, it's much harder to determine exactly what they do — both individually and in concert with other microbes.

So the bacteria evidently form a sort of conductive chain, comprising biological nanowires and possibly pyrite grains embedded in the mud, that allows electrons from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and carbon within the sediment to contribute to the reduction of oxygen by other microbes at the sediment surface.

Yeast and other microbes can ferment plant sugars into ethanol, a gasoline additive.

Researchers will also need to investigate how S. gallolyticus works with or against other microbes that live in the colon, says Ran Blekhman, a geneticist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Resistance to antibiotics by bacteria and other microbes is an ongoing public health crisis, contributing to about two million infections and 23,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Copper has long been known to effectively kill bacteria and other microbes on contact.

This kind of drug also holds promise because it would affect only Salmonella and leave the trillions of other microbes in the gut unaffected.

Bacteria and other microbes that fell on the glacier surface would have spent a million years being carried downward as more snow fell above them before they eventually plopped into the lakes.

Lane, for one, is unconvinced that Loki can engulf other microbes — without a mitochondrion, he says, it simply lacks the power.

Other microbes or contaminants might also hasten glacial melt.

Their survey is part of a growing push to look beyond the bacteria that make up the much - discussed microbiome to find other microbes that naturally inhabit the human body and may influence health and disease.

However, in a new study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers have turned to analyzing the human microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.

Along with animal studies, these observations suggest that the balance of bacteria and other microbes help guide immune development — and that when the balance is disrupted, disease may follow.

In the past, researchers made bacteria that fight off other microbes, but they had limitations.

H. pylori thrives in the gastric epithelium and in the very thin layer of overlying mucus that protects the stomach wall from the peptic acid, a special niche that is hostile to nearly all other microbes.

So other microbes «denitrify» ecosystems, converting the element back into forms not available for living things.

(Other microbes turn over less than 50 percent.)

In addition to contamination of drinking water, bacteria and other microbes can also contaminate rivers and lakes — for example, the algal blooms in Hong Kong.

A number of other microbes that cause intestinal problems, in humans and other animals, have been sequenced or partly sequenced, and microbiologists hoped that adding these two to the list could shed light on the problems Salmonella inflicts.

The new study shows how technology that mimics the human nose can sniff out low levels of bacteria and other microbes by detecting the off flavor they give off.

As the researchers report in the 25 October issue of Nature, comparison of these two Salmonella enterica genomes to each other and other microbes should help scientists find better ways to prevent and treat the ailments they trigger.

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

Their aim was to look into how the microscopic residents of the oceans, such as bacteria and other microbes, can assist us in cleaning up pollutants, and whether they are capable of restoring the natural balance afterwards.