Sentences with phrase «microbes live»

Organisms and microbes live in all layers of the soil, and they don't like to be moved around.

Tiny microbes live within us and help us live life as we know it.

If you're constantly cleaning and rubbing and scrubbing your skin's barrier, the terrain that your microbes live on, you're ruining their environment.

Trillions and trillions of good microbes live in your GI tract, and they need prebiotics to flourish.

More than 100 trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live as squatters in your gut.

Some of these microbes live in the acidic sulfur springs of Yellowstone National Park.

«Understanding how the environment in which microbes live leads to new properties could help us to predict how microbes will adapt to the use of antibiotics, antimicrobial hand soaps, disinfectants and other products intended to control their spread.»

More than 50 million different species of single - celled microbes live on Earth, yet we know very little about the communities they inhabit.

The evidence is now clear that far below the sea, and far below the floor of the sea, in sediments all over the world, microbes live to astonishing depths — the record so far is half a mile — and in astonishing numbers.

More than 100 trillion microbes live down there.

Most microbes live quiet lives: they pass their time breaking down and recycling organic material or taking nitrogen from the air and turning it into water - soluble salts which plants can use as nutrients.

«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome Project's principal investigators.

Yet scientists know very little about the rules the microbes live by.

There are even microbes living on our eyelashes that are not visible except for the use of a microscope.

Research also says that the baby microbiome (the little ecosystem of microbes living in baby's gut) plays a role.

In short, the tribes of microbes living in your baby's gut become more varied and diverse.

We went up there to study microbes living in the permafrost that have been frozen for millennia.

They have spent months sampling the microbes living in the building's air and on floors, desks, chairs, and other active surfaces.

«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.

There was no real sense at the time of the number and diversity of microbes living in the atmosphere.

In the new study, they treated the mice with antibiotics to disrupt the populations of microbes living in their gut.

Study after study has shown how the microbes living in us and on us — the microbiome — can affect our health and even happiness.

Although the methane could have come from the activity of microbes living below the permafrost, an equally plausible explanation is that it came from reactions between minerals and water trapped in rocky layers underneath.

They studied samples of rumen gut contents from 43 cows and identified 913 diverse strains of microbes living in the rumen.

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

Earlier studies have linked the human microbiome — that is, the collection of microbes living in and on the human body — to a variety of health conditions, but little is known about the role of the penile microbiome as it relates to men's health.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

Microbes living in oxygen - rich environments use enzymes floating free inside their cells to digest such plant matter.

A new survey of extreme microbes living in salty and alkaline lakes could yield «fingerprints» that help detect the biological origin of rocks on Mars

She points out that someone's immediate environment is bound to have a strong influence on the microbes living in and on them, and therefore on their thanatomicrobiome.

This «deep sequencing» technique has been used to characterize mixtures of microbes living in environments such as oceans and animal guts.

Microbes living in the landfills break down this cellulose into methane, which slowly seeps to the surface and into the atmosphere, where it is a potent greenhouse gas.

The research is part of a bigger endeavour called the International Human Microbiome Consortium, which aims to identify and study all the microbes living in and on our bodies.

Environmental conditions have a much stronger influence on the mix of microbes living in various parts of your body than does competition between species.

Metagenomics has already been used to sequence people's gut flora, and the geneticist Craig Venter famously tried to sequence the uncounted microbes living in the ocean.

New research has found that environmental conditions have a much stronger influence on the mix of microbes living in various parts of your body than does competition between species.

Knight's team will now work with Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff to create a map of the microbes living in the facility over the next six months, including the Mars 2020 Rover.

Her team has used this method to identify the microbes living in an aquifer near the Colorado River in Rifle, Colorado.

Methylmercury is a neurotoxin that forms in nature when mercury interacts with certain microbes living in soil and waterways.

Scientists have theorised that any microbes living on Mars would have to be something like terrestrial halophiles in order to cope with the planet's high salinity.

The compound might help the animal defend against predatory fish, or it might actually be produced by symbiotic microbes living on the creature's surface.

Ahalf - century later, biologists began finding microbes living, inconceivably, attemperatures of nearly 250 degrees in hot springs and ocean vents.

The total mass of microbes living beneath the seafloor has been estimated at as much as a third of all the living stuff on the planet.

To get to one of their study sites, Onstott and his colleagues have to take an elevator 3.5 km down into one of a dozen gold mines in the Witwatersrand basin of South Africa, where they have found microbes living in water trapped in cracks in the hot rock.

Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for immune responses that protect the eye from infection, new research shows.

Last year, SciLifeLab researchers also joined an effort to sequence the genomes of microbes living in the Baltic Sea.

Scientists have discovered a catalogue of bacteria elsewhere that mine their energy from rocks and minerals, and many assume that specialized microbes living in Antarctica's hidden lakes might do the same.

But for the microbes living within us, time marches on.

And why are ordinary microbes living in an extraordinary place?

«What we think of as coral are really the animal host, symbiotic algae and symbiotic microbes all living together.