Sentences with phrase «microbial life on»

The discovery of fossils of microorganisms in 3.48 billion - year - old hot spring deposits pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years.

The discovery pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years, and raises an intriguing question — where did life first emerge, on land or in the oceans?

Microbial life on early Earth evolved and changed the environment, thereby enabling the evolution of more complex life.

However, it will have a number of improvements and instruments to carry out its search for signs of past microbial life on the Red Planet.

While, for now, these questions are still uncertain, field research in places like Rotorua are of extreme importance to advance our knowledge of the limits of life on Earth and possible microbial life on Mars.

In a surprising and probably killer blow to the possibility of finding microbial life on Mars, Curiosity has reported that there's no methane in the Martian atmosphere.

Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.

Biotech guru J. Craig Venter proposes that if we find microbial life on Mars, we could sequence its genome locally, transmit the information and rebuild the organism here on Earth.

«If there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years — if it is enough like our form of life.

The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the Martian environment, combined with findings from the 1976 Viking mission, have led to the conclusion that existing life on Mars is a possibility that must be considered, as presented in an article in Astrobiology.

«Microbial life on Mars: The possibility must be considered.»

But NASA, interested in the similarities of Vida's brine pool to possible microbial life on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa, will support a return expedition in 2004.

Because such chemistry provides energy for microbial life on Earth, the discovery makes Enceladus the top candidate for hosting life elsewhere in the solar system — besting even Jupiter's Europa, another icy moon with an ocean.

This information guided Phoenix, the rover deployed before Curiosity, as it searched for microbial life on Mars.

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.

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

The initial 2016 phase of the mission would carry an orbiter designed to sniff out possible sources of methane and other trace gases that might signal the presence of microbial life on Mars.

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

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.

If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial gap for microbial life on the planet.

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.

Curiosity touched down on the night of Aug. 5, 2012, kicking off a mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.

And wanting to see evidence of human life and not just microbial is such an incredibly ignorant comment on so many levels.

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

Right here on Earth, most life is microbial, and a careful reading of the planet's fossil and geochemical record reveals it always has been.

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

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover completed a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

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 disease.

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.

Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.

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.

The authors argue that it comes from hydrothermal activity on the ocean floor, perhaps seafloor vents like those on Earth that spew H2 and support rich microbial life.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

Recent findings emphasize the importance of investigating members of the archaeal domain of life in order to obtain a more comprehensive view of microbial ecology, symbiosis, and metabolic interdependencies involving archaeal partners, and of evolution of life on Earth in regard to the deep roots of archaea as well as our microbial ancestry.

This is the most comprehensive study of microbial communities living on a glacier to date,» said Lutz.

Fredricks is a leading expert on the complex microbial communities that live in the vagina and the role they play in health and disease.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

In a perspective piece published November 6 in the journal Science, Eddy Rubin, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, along with Microbial Program Head Tanja Woyke, discusses why the time is right to apply genomic technologies to discover new life on Earth.

The tripmark exhibit is still being finalized, but already this art - science project has been on display at two conferences as part of an effort to make the public more aware of soil microbial life.

The finding could have a profound effect on microbial life.

Preventive vaccines work by introducing harmless microbial chemical markers, known as antigens, which resemble the markers on living microbes.

«Without oxygen, the most sophisticated life on the earth would have been green microbial scum,» study author David Catling notes.

If there were multiple origins of life on Earth, the microbial descendants of another genesis could be all around us, forming a possible shadow biosphere.

You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,» she says, «and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.»

At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team have been operating a miniaturized «Mars farm» in order to simulate ancient and probably extinct microbial life — based on gases and synthetically produced Martian regolith of diverse composition.

Crew members wore treated garments and slept on treated bedsheets, after which Sierra - Sastre tested them for microbial life including aerobic bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, mold, and yeast.

Caves and skylights on Mars and the moon have recently attracted the attention of researchers keen on finding the best places to build extraterrestrial habitats (as well as those looking for extraterrestrial — likely microbial — life).

The novel techniques developed by Louca and his colleagues will allow scientists around the world to better understand the processes that shape microbial communities, which form the basis of life on Earth.

«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.

Gale crater is also thought to harbor clues of ancient water activity on the Martian surface, and one of Curiosity's primary tasks will be to root around for evidence that Mars is, or was, capable of supporting microbial life.