Sentences with phrase «microbial source of»

By detecting the molecular machinery used by the plankton to create one of the enzymes needed to split nitrogen molecules apart, scientists appear to have discovered a new microbial source of the ocean's nitrogen - bearing nutrients.

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Specifically, she is working on finding the potential alternative cheap sources of sanitizers for prevention of microbial growth tomato, which is the first most grown vegetable crop in Malawi.

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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.

Bridget also runs the Facebook page «Seeding Baby's Microbiome» a source for health professionals and parents alike to keep up to date with the latest science and understanding of giving baby the best microbial start.

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.

What's more, even small amounts of ethanol stalled the growth of microbial «weeds» that crowd out the beetles» food source, like the fungus Penicillium.

In recent years, dental calculus has emerged as an unexpected, but valuable, long - term reservoir of ancient DNA from dietary and microbial sources.

Their findings, published in The American Society of Microbiology's mSystems journal, say that the pattern of microbial exchange is «likely circular in nature,» meaning that captive dragons contribute microbes to their environment, and reacquire these same microbes from their environment, repeating this exchange in an ongoing cycle without other external sources of microbial diversity.

Microbial processes in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range may point to a new source of atmospheric carbon.

To trace the source of the anthrax, the FBI used «microbial forensics,» a new approach that combines established microbiology techniques with DNA sequencing.

But Bohannan says that microbial succession could prove to be a «more accurate source of forensic information than insect succession.»

The optimized process of microbial electrosynthesis opens up further perspectives for the future production of biofuel or for the storage of power from regenerative sources in the form of chemical products, for instance.

Tyson also investigates how microbial forensics helped scientists determine the source of the anthrax mailings of 2001.

In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.

They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.

Using confocal laser microscopy and electron microscopy, coupled with the use of advanced synchrotron techniques at the Swiss Light Source, in Villigen (Switzerland), and at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon, Canada, the team was able to show that not only the morphology of microbial twisted structures is preserved after long incubations under diagenetic conditions, but also organic remnants can be detected in the mineralized twisted structures.

The underground ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors an abundance of molecular hydrogen, which could be an important source of food if microbial life exists there.

Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.

«Microorganisms are in a constant fight for territory, for food sources, for their place in that microbial community,» says Karen Bartlett of the University of British Columbia, an expert in the behavior of biological aerosols.

Now scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a highly accurate, DNA - based method to detect and distinguish sources of microbial contamination in water.

«Instead of targeting one organism, we're essentially getting a fingerprint of the microbial community of potential sources in that sample.

They validated their method by comparing it to about 40 other methods of microbial source tracking in a California study.

The new study «counters the notion that soil bacteria are an exhausted source of natural products, and it opens the door to begin to explore the remaining 99 % of microbial diversity that traditional culture - dependent approaches have missed,» says Steven G. Van Lanen of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Harnessing a Methane - Fueled, Sediment - Free Mixed Microbial Community for Utilization of Distributed Sources of Natural Gas — Jeffrey J. Marlow — Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The project provided seminal discoveries in subglacial hydrological and geological dynamics and also uncovered a diverse microbial ecosystem surviving without any light source thousands of feet below the ice.

Biofuels Digest covered the recent study released by JBEI demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels.

Original Journal Source: S. Hazen et al. y - Butyrobetaine is a proatherogenic intermediate in gut microbial metabolism of L - Carnitine to TMAO.

Editorial: Marine microbiome as source of natural products — Fernando de la Calle — Microbial Biotechnology

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Microbial communities in biological denitrification system using methanol as carbon source for treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate from coking wastewater — Enchao Li — Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

Analysis of that sample showed that early Mars offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including the key elemental ingredients for life and a chemical energy source such as used by some microbes on Earth.

Some suggesting that arguing that their presence of actually increased the odds of finding life on Mars because perchlorates lower water's freezing point and could be a potential source of energy for microbial lifeforms.

It's becoming clear from the American Gut Project that an important source of gut microbial diversity is the number of different plants we eat.

Many of the above studies on soluble fibers and their benefits were on Inulin and Fructooligosaccharides, which are thought to be the two best sources of soluble fiber when it comes to microbial health.

As the rules / tenants of basic microbial ecology go, a reduction in fermentable substrates derived from carbohydrates means less energy sources for the microbes — who depend on host - derived substrates as well, as in the case of mucin - degraders like Akkermansia.

This diet focuses on tubers as a source of carbohydrate, and, after one month of slate - clearing (microbial shifting), re-incorporates gluten - free grains, white potatoes, and even beans (soaked).

There are many sources for oxides of nitrogen: the ocean, peat bogs, microbial denitrification in soils, etc..

«A potentially very large Arctic source of methane to the atmosphere is the decay of organic matter in the form of dead plant, animal and microbial remains that have been frozen in shallow permafrost for tens of thousands of years,» it said.

This «fingerprint» allows scientists to differentiate between two common sources of methane: microbial and thermogenic.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct production of electricity from renewable carbon sources; hydrogen production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.

Important to understand most plants diffuse massive amounts of air into the wastewater to provide the 02 source for microbial decomposition.