Sentences with phrase «microbial pathogens»

This section describes food safety issues associated with microbial pathogens like bacteria and viruses that could be associated with certain types of seafood products.

However, increased temperatures were quickly followed by a loss of resistance to pathogenic disease and an increased abundance of microbial pathogens in A. palmata [17], perhaps explaining the high incidence of disease following the thermal stress by either contagious or opportunistic pathogens [18].

MP1 acts against microbial pathogens by disrupting the bacterial cell membrane.

Designed to examine how spaceflight affects potentially infectious organisms, the Micro-8 investigation will provide new insights into better management and treatment of C. albicans infections when they occur on Earth as well as in space, and may offer ways to combat other microbial pathogens.

Dangl's aim is to more effectively combat microbial pathogens and pests that harm crop yield, while simultaneously diminishing the use of chemicals to control plant disease.

Part of the problem is the lack of resources we ourselves direct to food from abroad: The FDA has a minuscule team of some 1,500 inspectors devoted to food imports, a workforce too small to screen more than a tiny fraction of the food that arrives at U.S. ports each year for microbial pathogens or other disease - causing contaminants.

First proposed in 2003, the city got the ball rolling on the UV disinfection project shortly after the EPA in 2006 tightened restrictions on microbial pathogens allowed in drinking water.

Microbial pathogens induce specific host responses or «RNA biosignatures» that can be identified using microarray analyses of blood leukocytes (white cells).

The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.

Our study suggests that the ability to undergo unisexual reproduction may be an evolutionary strategy for eukaryotic microbial pathogens, enabling de novo genotypic and phenotypic plasticity and facilitating rapid adaptation to novel environments.

Over 64 of these papers reported studies on the genomics of microbial pathogens since 2008.

This is the paper he shared: Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer's Disease with this question: Are clinical microbial pathogens triggering Alzheimer's disease?

She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.

«Our study highlights the importance of taking advantage of the tremendous diversity of environmental microbes to improve our knowledge about the evolution of microbial pathogens,» said author Domman.

Boiling water for a few minutes kills most bacteria, amoebas, and other microbial pathogens.

The other is turned on when an insect regurgitates stomach contents containing microbes onto the plant triggering a response by the plant to microbial pathogens that uses salicylic acid.

So he and his colleagues probed extensively for fungi and other types of microbial pathogens.

Insects, microbial pathogens and vertebrate diseases were just emerging around that same time, including malaria.»

Although the bulk of Pioneer's work is with maize and soybeans, Simmons says, the company also works with rice, sorghum, and microbial pathogens.

The approach of targeting a host response required by a pathogen to cause disease rather than targeting the microbial pathogen is gaining wide support in the medical community.»

«We are not saying that any of these microbial pathogens cause Alzheimer's disease» in people, he notes.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have now looked more deeply into the insect - plant interaction, asking whether the tiny bodyguards also provide protection against microbial pathogens.

Intriguingly, the leaves of acacia colonized by parasitic ants showed more leaf damage from herbivores and microbial pathogens than did the leaves that had mutualistic ants.

«But the fact that so many ant species appear to have little or no chemical defense against microbial pathogens is also important.»

«Based on our work, it's possible that amyloid works in a similar way, quickly seeded in the brain in response to a microbial pathogen,» Tanzi told The Scientist.

With further improvements of the sequencing technology and increased throughput of the PromethION sequencer we aim to generate near - finished assemblies of large and repetitive plant genomes and cost - efficiently perform de novo sequencing of large collections of microbial pathogens and the microbial communities that surround our crops.

HISTORY OF THIMEROSAL Before the invention of modern antibiotics and antiseptics, physicians experimented with mercury - containing compounds to try to stave off microbial pathogens.

Suppression of microbial pathogens 4.

Typically, food becomes contaminated with a microbial pathogen as a result of improper food processing, handling, preparation and / or storage.