Sentences with phrase «microbial organisms»

There are many trillions of microbial organisms living in and on our bodies, outnumbering our own cells 3 to 1.

Manmade production of ammonia and nitrate fertilizers has exploded in recent decades and now vastly exceeds the amount of atmospheric nitrogen converted into reactive nitrogen by microbial organisms around the world.

And Noah saved 2 of every known microbial organism, herded onto this boat from every continent, including arctic wolves and polar bears.

These foods contain trillions of healthy microbial organisms, live enzymes and L - glutamine which is the major amino acid that is needed to produce healthy intestinal cells.

Second, Ukstins Peate and her team aim to learn whether the Martian - like sand dunes harbor microbial organisms, perhaps even some that may be long dormant.

Closer to home, scientists are designing devices that could be deployed on Mars or Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, to detect microbial organisms.

«This should not only expedite scientific discovery, but help us better engineer microbial organisms to further biotechnology and medicine,» says Dr. Chase Beisel, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

There, Ferrari and her colleagues reported seeing DNA traces from 23 microbial organisms inside those Antarctic soil samples.

The three - year grants will support researchers in Hong Kong and Australia who are part of the ENIGMA (Eastern Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gut Microbiota) consortium to identify microbial organisms and related dietary factors that contribute to the development of Crohn's disease, one of the two major forms of IBD and a life - long disabling condition of the gut.

The paper, which appears in the August issue of the US - based journal, Pediatrics, suggests childhood exposure to microbial organisms via thumb - sucking and nail - biting could reduce the risk of developing allergies.

Moisture is one of the key ingredients needed by fungi and other microbial organisms to grow and proliferate.

Most of the biomass in the oceans would have been bacteria and archaea [another type of microbial organism that often inhabits extreme environments].

From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms.

While our expectations have changed from the idea of cities and walking, talking Martians, to the thought that microbial organisms may lie deep beneath Mars» surface, this hope hasn't died.

Our bodies are home to many TRILLIONS of microbial organisms (aka.

This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but it describes the amazing life - cycles of microbial organisms that form the biological soil crusts (BSCs) of Earth's deserts.

The latest big thing we've found is that these microbial organisms can be synthesized and manipulated to perform specific tasks like blink on and off like Christmas lights and imitate photographs based on light sensitivity.

As such, we've become big believers in taking some cues from Momma Earth, especially when it comes to things like design imitating nature (we call that «biomimicry») and the amazing power of microbial organisms to eat pollution and create energy.