Sentences with phrase «more about the microbes»

But strangely, scientists know more about the microbes that inhabit the soil and sea than those that call us home.

When a landscape architect set out to change the state of the soil in her garden, she ended up learning a lot more about microbes, how they communicate with our immune system, and our own cancer risk.

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Both groups responded favorably to the articles, but the people who read about Martian microbes had a more positive reaction.

«We know more about soil microbes than we do about those on our own body,» Bohannan says.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

«When we know more about all these microbe, herbivore, and plant interactions, we may be able to manipulate the system to make the plants manipulate the bacteria,» said Felton.

More than 98 percent of the enzyme - producing microbes belong to the Gammaproteobacteria class, which includes E. coli and about 250 bacterial genera.

The scientists transferred the twins» gut bacteria to mice predisposed to develop a disease that mimics MS. Twelve weeks after the transplant, about 40 percent more mice with gut microbes from a twin with MS developed brain inflammation compared with mice that got gut microbes from a twin without disease.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Learn more about these mysterious microbes, which refuse to grow in the lab and seem to have a fundamentally different relationship with time and energy than we do.

The more Jansson and her colleagues are able to learn about previously unknown communities of microbes, the better they'll be able to predict how these communities will react to different conditions — droughts, warmer weather or floods, just to kick off the list.

More knowledge about microbes helps scientists understand climate change and the forces that shape the health of our planet.

More than 50 million different species of single - celled microbes live on Earth, yet we know very little about the communities they inhabit.

They are ubiquitous, incredibly diverse — more than 50 million different species of microbes inhabit our Earth — and yet we know very little about them.

The next step is to gain more information about which genes the microbes are carrying and how they're interacting with the host genomes.»

Those who had read about Martian microbes, though, had shown a more positive reaction.

Meanwhile, to learn more about what makes these microbes tick, scientists are sequencing the genome of a species called Dehalococcoides ethenogenes.

in August 2014, to be a member of Dr. Thijs Ettema's laboratory (a new challenge for me), to learn more about the very smallest beings and what kind of relation our world has to the invisible world of microbes.

In the last five years, technology has allowed us to better understand the human microbiome — scientists have now identified and named 8,000 microbes and are learning more about their complex interactions each day.

When it comes to the health and well being of your gut microbes, nothing matters more than fermentable substrates (You can read about here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here — you get the idea).

To learn more about how the anthrax outbreak itself may have begun, I spoke with Vladimir Romanovsky, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska — Fairbanks who has studied Arctic microbes and is one of the world's foremost experts on Siberian permafrost.

Based on their results, the Berkeley Lab scientists recommend that future Earth system models include a more nuanced and dynamic depiction of how soil microbes go about the business of degrading organic matter and freeing up carbon.

The more he found out about the marine system from his chemist collaborator, Tim Lenton, the more he began to suspect that microbes were unconsciously orchestrating the elements for their own perpetuation.

(Read more about phytoplankton and what Bowman is seeing at Palmer Station in his research blog, Polar Microbes.)

I've been learning more about fermentation and now have a collection of microbes growing and co-existing in our refrigerator.