Sentences with phrase «microbial life in»

Rivkina, E., K. Laurinavichius, J. McGrath, J. Tiedje, V. Shcherbakova, and D. Gilichinsky, Microbial life in permafrost, in Space Life Sciences: Search for Signatures of Life, and Space Flight Environmental Effects on the Nervous System, pp. 1215 - 1221, 2004.

Fluorescense Measurements of Microbial Life in the WAIS Divide Ice Core.

Microbial life in martian ice: A biotic origin of methane on Mars?

Knowledge of the diversity of microbial life in the oceans continues to grow.

Evidence for cavity - dwelling microbial life in 3.22 Ga tidal deposits.

Christner has examined microbial life in ice cores from Vostok and many other global locations.

To read «Nearing the cold - arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica» by Jacqueline Goordial et al in The ISME Journal: 10.1038 / ismej.2015.239

«If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has been under ice for a very long time, so it must have evolved in isolation.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

The old way to search for microbial life in the ocean, he explains, was to isolate individual species by growing them in laboratory cultures.

His specialty is microbial life in oceans, and his particular interest is the way that viruses drive the evolution and regulate the activities of bacteria.

Andrew Steele uses traditional and biotechnological approaches for the detection of microbial life in astrobiology and solar system exploration.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

Using a portable, miniature DNA sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore MiniON), the researchers show for the first time that not only can the tool be used for examining environmental samples in extreme and remote settings, but that it can be combined with other methodology to detect active microbial life in the field.

«If there is microbial life in the lake, it should be something unusual,» says Lipenkov.

Today, the team announced that they have the first evidence of microbial life in subglacial Antarctic waters, shown here just as the team's underwater camera reached the bottom of the lake.

At Ames, Farmer studied microbial life in the hot springs at Yellowstone National Park, a project he began in 1989 while still at UCLA.

Tullis Onstott has to put on a headlamp and protective gear when excavating microbial live in some of South Africa's deepest mines.

Not exact matches

It recently also confirmed that chemical reactions between water and rock on the moon can provide enough energy in the water to feed microbial life.

Boston's Harvard Museum of Natural History has just launched «World in a Drop: Photographic Explorations of Microbial Life,» offering a rare and often beautiful view of tiny ecosystems.

The goal is to keep Juno from disrupting any aliens — microbial or otherwise — that might live in hidden oceans of water below the icy shells of Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede.

He made the entirely reasonable point that microbial life on Earth, or some of its complex building blocks, may have drifted in from outer space.

Thirty - five years ago, three scientists in Oregon set out to create a fermented ingredient to protect against microbial spoilage and extend the shelf - life of food products.

Low oxygen conditions under vacuum packaging can minimize oxidative deterioration of meat and inhibit aerobic microbial growth.Also, in order to extend meat display life using nitriteembedded film (NEF) are used.

He considers how the microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child may play a crucial role in regulating health.

The microbial population living in breast milk and the transport of bacteria between mother and child play a crucial role in regulating health.

However, in the last few centuries of human - microbe interactions, changes in our birth and medical practices and living conditions may have altered the acquisition of our microbial communities.

It is thought that the initial microbial exposure is important in defining the successional trajectories leading to more complex and stable adult ecosystems (10, 22), and additionally, initial communities may serve as a direct source of protective or pathogenic bacteria very early in life.

Could we pick out signs of microbial life on Mars even before we go digging around in caves there?

Mars, the target of more than a dozen robotic missions to hunt for signs of microbial life, comes in third at 0.59.

We looked at their DNA instead, which we filtered out of the water, to determine where these things fit in with other sorts of microbial life.

Second, Neil Ross from Newcastle University in England, a co-author on the study, speculates that the lake could contain microbial life.

Mars 2020 takes the next natural step in its direct search for evidence of ancient microbial life, focusing measurements to the microbial scale and producing high - resolution maps over similarly postage stamp - sized analytical areas.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

In findings published January 10 in Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteriIn findings published January 10 in Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteriin Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteriin tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteria.

At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.

«The amount of different types of microbial life present in the cloud droplets that make up a winter storm is amazing,» says Gary Franc, a microbiologist and plant pathologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

The oozy red slush of Blood Falls in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contains teeming microbial life — and may be a sample of a deep briny groundwater system hundreds of meters below the surface.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and diseasIn this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and diseasin PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

Some archaea — a domain of microbial life that was little understood when the Viking landers reached their destination — live in even more extreme situations, flourishing in temperatures far above the boiling point of water and surviving in thick brine.

In Philosophy of Microbiology, Maureen A. O'Malley, a philosopher of biology, authoritatively sets the issue straight, arguing that we are in fact living in a microbial world, and that a realization of this will change the way we perceive biological phenomena, and the manner in which they are investigateIn Philosophy of Microbiology, Maureen A. O'Malley, a philosopher of biology, authoritatively sets the issue straight, arguing that we are in fact living in a microbial world, and that a realization of this will change the way we perceive biological phenomena, and the manner in which they are investigatein fact living in a microbial world, and that a realization of this will change the way we perceive biological phenomena, and the manner in which they are investigatein a microbial world, and that a realization of this will change the way we perceive biological phenomena, and the manner in which they are investigatein which they are investigated.

As a few researchers had been arguing ever since microbial evolutionist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois first suggested it in the 1970s, archaea may look like bacteria, but they actually belong on a third branch of the tree of life.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

But the microbial diversity still remained 67 percent lower than that in mice that had always had a high - fiber life.

In one group, participants read a past article from The New York Times describing possible evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

The decrease in environmental microbial exposure from urban living could have health implications for humans.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionIn search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionin the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

Scientists believe the lake could be home to cold - loving microbial life adapted to living in total darkness.

Upon arrival in October, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will train its instruments on the Red Planet, in the hopes of resolving questions about the existence of methane gas, and whether it could hint at microbial life.