Sentences with phrase «microscopic bacteria»

Thus, these microscopic bacteria perform a huge function in helping determine the oceanic ecosystem response to the cycling of carbon under climate change.

The concentration of minerals in the remaining water yields blooms of microscopic bacteria, turning the liquid a deep, bloody red.

Plaque is made of 90 percent microscopic bacteria, which over time, hardens and becomes what we call tartar or calculus.

These microscopic bacteria are essential for maintaining the health of your intestines!

Lyme disease is a world - wide infectious disease caused by microscopic bacteria carried by ticks.

With the fecal stream constantly moving down, at what to microscopic bacteria must seem a breakneck pace, how do at least some of our little friends manage o avoid being swept completely out of our bodies?

The microscopic bacteria in our digestive tracts make up our flora, or microbiome.

Dedicated crews of microscopic bacteria in the mud generate electricity by doing what bacteria do best: eating.

It contains microscopic bacteria and fungi, as well as tiny worms called nematodes and other invertebrates.

The newfound role of the soil microbiome — the collection of microscopic bacteria, fungi and archaea that interact with plant roots — represents a turning point for research aimed at understanding and predicting where important tree species will reside in the future.

Microscopic bacteria live on the tongue, teeth, and skin and in the intestine *.

According to medical reports, hundreds of germs such as viruses, microscopic bacteria and fungi may grow on the unsanitary stroller fabric.

Bacterium effective when dusted on plants — The successful agent for destroying pesty insects, the microscopic bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, is most effective when it is dusted onto tobacco or other plants....

Researchers have sequenced the genome of Mycoplasma pulmonis, a microscopic bacterium that causes respiratory and genital infections in mice and rats.

Not exact matches

A microorganism is microscopic living matter, like a bacterium.

«At certain frequencies of rotation, the bacteria self - organize into a spiral - shaped halo, creating a microscopic galaxy — similar to our galaxy Milky Way, but trillions of trillions (1024) of times smaller,» Sokolov said.

1 When moist, warm air rises to a cooler elevation, water condenses onto microscopic «seeds» like dust, ash, or bacteria.

It uses the pressure of a highly focused laser beam to levitate and manipulate delicate microscopic objects such as viruses, bacteria and DNA strands without causing them damage.

Two hundred trillion microscopic organisms bacteria, viruses, and fungi are swarming inside you right now.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

Sedimentary rocks 3.5 billion years old (and perhaps those 3.8 billion years old) contain what appear to be fossil stromatolites, which are natural colonies formed by photosynthetic bacteria; within the stromalites one can see microscopic forms reminiscent of bacteria.

This dead organic material provides the perfect habitat for a plethora of organisms, including worms, snails, spiders, and microscopic decomposers like fungi and bacteria.

Over the oceans, some contain organic or biological ingredients (bacteria, degradation products of microscopic algae) which come from sea spray, others are transported in the air (mineral dust, smoke).

Jun - Yuan Chen of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology and his colleagues collected and studied samples of Vernanimalcula guizhouena, a microscopic animal that probably moved along the seafloor sucking in bacteria for food.

The problem with having a microscopic robot propelled by a horde of tail - flailing bacteria is you never know where it's going to end up.

Such behavior also takes place on a microscopic scale, such as when bacteria roam the folds of the gut.

Previous research has already demonstrated that substantial quantities of self - motile or active agents such as bacteria in a fluid environment can be harnessed to do mechanical work like moving microscopic gears and ratchets.

Their aim was to look into how the microscopic residents of the oceans, such as bacteria and other microbes, can assist us in cleaning up pollutants, and whether they are capable of restoring the natural balance afterwards.

These «snack packets» are microscopic carbon - filled parcels, or vesicles, released by marine bacteria.

«Harnessing bacteria to move microscopic gears and ratchets.»

As a small spaceship landing on the moon, the microscopic particles land on the surface of the bacteria where they inject their deadly genetic material.

Microscopic imaging of the intestines revealed that the average distance between gut bacteria and the intestinal cells was reduced by more than half; bacteria seemed to be advancing toward the gut lining.

The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

Not only do birds flock together but so too do countless examples throughout life, from the macroscopic to the microscopic, including schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, groups of migrating cells and even some proteins.

The tangled symbiotic and pathogenic relationships between bacteria and multicellular animals go back into deep evolutionary time where fossils of ancestral microscopic soft - bodied eukaryotes are unlikely to have survived.

«Microbial Pompeii:» 1,000 - year - old plaque preserves bacteria, microscopic particles of food on skeleton teeth.»

Over five days, the team systematically altered biological communities within the flume by adding various combinations of cultures of marine bacteria and microscopic marine algae, or phytoplankton.

«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

Although the Arctic and Antarctic regions are at opposite ends of Earth, they have a similar diversity of bacteria and other microscopic life.

At least twenty - five plants and animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.

The 18 winning entries announced Thursday include a biolfilm imaging technigue that conveys the growth of bacteria; a photograph of micro-scale flows produced by reef - building corals; and a photo of microscopic plant hairs.

The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.

An artist and a microbiologist created this experiment — part art, part science — that uses bacteria to turn gold chloride into microscopic gold.

Now, researchers have developed a microscopic «tuning fork» that detects tiny vibrations in bacteria.

A scoopful of soil, teeming with microscopic life, contains a rich library of genes that help bacteria thrive in the wild.

The majority of these molecules are eventually eaten by microscopic marine bacteria, used for energy, and recycled back into carbon dioxide as the bacteria exhale.

It's basically just Darwin's idea of the survival of the fittest, reduced to a microscopic level — bacteria with these genes survive and outgrow susceptible variants.

bacteria Microscopic, single - celled organisms that dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside animals.

The EPFL sensor is capable of detecting movements made by microscopic living things, such as bacteria (Image: Shutterstock)

When microscopic living items such as individual cells or bacterium are placed on its free end, even their regular metabolic functions will cause the cantilever to vibrate.