Sentences with phrase «microbes like»

But researchers are now finding that they actually contain complex ecosystems of microbes like bacteria, algae and viruses.

Would a stool analysis be able to tell whether native microbes like Candida are in a pathogenic state (i.e. causing internal dysbiosis)?

After all microbes like MSRA, an antibiotic resistant bacteria which lead to dangerous skin infections usually lurk there.

Coconut oil helps with oxidative stress, reacts against pathogens such as candida, viruses and microbes like H.Pylori, helps with seizures, neurotransmitter function and more.

This is because colloidal silver doesn't poison the microbes like antibiotics do, but rather smothers them by adhering to their cell walls and inhibiting their enzyme production.

Seventy percent of the immune system is in the intestinal lining and an overgrowth of harmful microbes like yeast, bad bacteria and parasites can cause the immune system to «misfire.»

«Microbes like bacteria are all around us, but they are too small to see.

Washington, DC (Scicasts)-- Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world.

C. nivalis and other snow microbes like to live where the temps are just below freezing.

In the meantime the new discovery suggests that microbes like G. sulfurreducens and T. denitrificans may build electric grids wherever they find themselves.

But plants such as purple loosestrife; invertebrates like the zebra mussels and gypsy moths; mammals, including rats, feral cats and pigs; and microbes like the AIDS virus are hardly so benign.

When this research team isolated and sequenced DNA from humpback and right whale feces, they found the genetic signatures of protein - digesting microbes like those in a lion or a tiger.

Once optimised, using microbes like yeast will make harvesting compounds such as CBDV efficient and cost - effective, says Williams.

«We were generally interested in how microbes like bacteria interact with surfaces individually and collectively, and how might surfaces guide microorganisms,» Dunkel says.

Microbes like syringae may also exploit ice nucleation to parachute down in raindrops or snowflakes, ensuring they do not remain stuck at high altitudes when swept up by storms.

Whatever the case, Wright and his students began combing through the DNA of soil microbes like streptomyces to better understand their impressive antibiotic - making powers.

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

Unabsorbed iron can encourage the growth of unwanted microbes like Enterobacter, Salmonella, and Listeria.

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.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

In particular, beneficial microbes including Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria like to «feast» on cocoa, according to the researchers.

The foods are subjected to some severe environmental conditions like temperature, oxidation and microbes.

That meant a dry beer heavy on oats and hard red winter wheat, plenty of funky microbes, and, as a nod to the style's celestial name, melon - like Galaxy hops.

Things like bacteria and microbes tracked in on your shoes and soot from scented candles can be harmful.

Teach kids what germs are, microbe names and what they look like with these plush educational toys.

Biohybrid systems combine something like electrocatalysis or photocatalysis with enzymes or microbes that can upgrade the products of CO2 conversion into finer chemicals.

«Most life elsewhere is probably simple — like microbes — and most planets have probably not advanced to a stage of an oxygenated atmosphere.

Knowing that human intelligence isn't so special after all could provoke a much different emotional response than finding mere microbes «like pond scum in space,» Shostak says.

With private companies like Virgin Galactic promising to take tourists to Mars and the nonprofit Planetary Society hoping to send microbes to orbit the Mars moon Phobos (though as of this writing the probe is stuck in Earth's orbit), «these issues are becoming more and more obvious.

When people entered, they acted like tornadoes, resuspending those settled microbes.

► As he is getting close to earning his Ph.D., He Fu has realized that, just like the microbes he works with, he has experienced his own lag phases and growth phases.

Genetic techniques had advanced considerably in the last two decades, so that it was possible to identify even a few ice nucleators like syringae out of thousands of microbes that might inhabit a cloud.

It's not as easy as it sounds: Under a microscope, they would probably look like utterly normal microbes, even though inside they would be hiding radically different molecular machinery.

Unlike antibiotics, which act like sledgehammers, wiping out all bacteria, phages specifically target single strains of these germs, leaving beneficial microbes unharmed.

Scientists like Franc are only now starting to catalog what could be thousands of species of microbes drifting in the sky, many of them almost certainly new to science, and some perhaps capable of surviving high in the stratosphere, where conditions are roughly as favorable for life as they are on Mars.

Cannibals — whether microbes or Methodists — who eat their own relatives can also experience decreases in a measure of evolutionary success known as inclusive fitness, in which the survival of an individual's genes, whether they're from an offspring or a collateral relative (like a brother or cousin) is the true measure of evolutionary success.

An even more distant possibility: treating babies with microbes that shape the immune system to stave off autoimmune diseases like asthma and psoriasis.

When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.

The articles in the pilot study focused on the 1996 discovery of possibly fossilized extraterrestrial Martian microbes; the 2015 discovery of periodic dimming around Tabby's Star, thought to indicate the presence of an artificially constructed «Dyson sphere;» and the 2017 discovery of Earth - like exoplanets in the habitable zone of a star.

How long this takes depends on factors like temperature, burial conditions and the number of microbes making a meal of it.

As these resilient microbes thrive, they can group together on a surface — like a wound or a medical device — and encase themselves in a slimy protective layer known as a biofilm.

That ice encased microbes, just like Bidle's specimens from the Dry Valleys.

But Keasling has estimated in the past that a mere 40.5 million hectares of Miscanthus giganteus — a more than three - meter tall Asian grass — chewed up by specially engineered microbes, like the E. coli here, could produce enough fuel to meet all U.S. transportation needs.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

«Like zebrafish, we have this rich source of gut microbes that have figured out how to coexist with us and soothe the immune system,» she says, adding that «there is enormous potential to harness those mechanisms» to address ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic inflammation.

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.

Gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson's - like movement disorders in genetically predisposed mice, researchers report December 1 in Cell.

Like plants in a garden, the diverse populations of microbes that normally line the intestinal tract, called the microbiota, are essential to human health.