Sentences with phrase «microbes help»

,:: Green Tech Will Spawn the Next Google Says Sun's Co-Founder,:: Will Custom - Made Microbes Help Power the Future?

Here's why: 80 percent of your immune system is in your gut — and your gut microbes help to modulate this system's activity.

«Plastic - Eating» Microbes Help Marine Debris Sink.

Should we seek to colonize another planet, understanding how microbes help make Earth habitable might allow us to create more Earth - like conditions on other planets — conditions necessary to sustain human life.

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

For MSU's McCabe, the conflicting findings have led her into a whole new study of how microbes help regulate bone density.

Microbiologist David Mills, who directed the study, says that ultimately, these microbes help in the fermentation process, but they can also affect the wine's taste.

Gut microbes help us fight off infections and resist allergies, but there's one thing we don't want them to do: touch our intestinal lining.

To make matters worse, some of those excess nitrate molecules in the soil undergo another chemical change: Microbes help turn nitrate into gaseous nitrous oxide, which has roughly 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

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.

By suppressing or increasing cravings, microbes help the brain decide what foods the body «needs»

In other words, if certain microbes help individuals to survive, that is good for the microbes, too.

In the future, the knowledge about beneficial fungi could also help to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture, the scientist says: «Inoculants based on these beneficial microbes help to «immunize» the plants against pathogens and pests, thereby reducing yield losses due to infections, in a sustainable way.»

«Microbes help plants survive in severe drought.»

Carrie Arnold discusses the idea that symbiotic microbes help drive the evolution of their hosts (12 January, p 30).

How are the microbes helping?

More knowledge about microbes helps scientists understand climate change and the forces that shape the health of our planet.

Not exact matches

There are tons of foods that are packed with antioxidants — natural compounds that help prevent or stop cell damage and help fend off viruses and microbes — as well as foods filled with vitamins and minerals, which are considered to fight an array of common illnesses like the flu, a cold, or even sinus infections.

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.

As a result, we are now well - placed to serve our customers with a complete portfolio of biobased solutions, Opti.Form ® lactate / acetate blends and Verdad ® clean label blends, to help combat harmful microbes and extend shelf life without affecting color, flavor or texture.»

Craig Venter (which helped to sequence the human genome) announced that it had created the first - ever synthetic, self - reproducing microbe with synthetic biology.

Unlike sugar, which may feed unwanted microbes in the intestinal tract, monk fruit compounds actually exhibit beneficial anti-microbial properties that may help maintain proper bacterial balance.

Fish emulsion contains up to 5 percent nitrogen with several trace elements that help improve soil microbes, resulting in more plant building blocks.

And because it's seaweed, it gives your baby a unique source of fiber which ultimately helps to feed and diversify your little one's wee gut microbes.

The vernix hydrates the skin and helps protect the baby from infection by microbes like E. coli, Group B Strep, and yeast.

Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

It's not just a feeding, but an exchange of microbes and healthy bacteria to help the baby ease into their transition from milk to solid foods.

These same gut microbes also help manufacture serotonin, which is a building block to melatonin production.

The lining is made from Dri - Lex moisture - wicking material combined with Aegis Microbe Shield to help control and prevent odors.

The anti-odor technology prevents microbes from growing help stop odors before they start.

Food packaging equipped with such microbe monitors could help curb the spread of foodborne illness, which kills about 420,000 people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.

One thing that helps with that is the anti-odor technology in the Ortholite sockliner that can help prevent the growth of microbes that can cause the odors.

The thick, slimy shield helps microbes withstand antibiotic attacks because the drugs have difficulty penetrating the slime.

Now it seems that increasing levels of one type of human gut microbe can help people shed excess weight.

The problem appears to lie in the drugs» disruption of a person's protective microflora — the resident bacteria that normally help keep invader microbes at bay.

The findings suggest that these particles, which end up at municipal sewage treatment plants after being washed off in showers, could eliminate microbes that play vital roles in ecosystems and help treat wastewater.

«The success brings us closer to altering genomes in a much more designed manner — for example, creating microbes that can help produce drugs or churn out biofuel,» he says.

Intelligent design became a scientific reality this year with the report that researchers had custom - made a lifesaving microbe — one that helps make a much - needed drug against malaria.

Building 3 - D models of bacterial communities could help explain how the microbes work together and evade drugs, says bioengineer Jason Shear of the University of Texas at Austin.

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

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

But the team hopes the Lake Whillans microbial community can help it understand so - called extremophile organisms that can exist in the extreme dark and cold, and how such microbes might also be affecting the chemistry of the ice itself.

The hipster insects serve up beneficial bacteria that may help baby bees develop a healthy blend of gut microbes, researchers report online August 7 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

However, they provide «exciting new evidence» that some intestinal microbes might inhibit key anti-inflammatory molecules and help trigger MS, he says, together with other genetic and environmental factors.

In addition to helping plants procure nutrients, exudates are food sources for the microbes that are an important part of the soil microbiome.

The study paves the way for research to understand which types of microbe — such as bacteria — are best at helping cattle to extract energy from their food, experts say.