Sentences with phrase «nematodes at»

After spending a ridiculous amount of money on flea treatments that were not working I purchased beneficial nematodes at Amazon.

Most importantly, nematicide - carrying virus particles dispersed better when applied to the soil surface and made more molecules available to kill nematodes at the root level.

Not exact matches

The product was «priced at a premium that reflects its consistent yield protection» against worms known as nematodes, he said.

These nematodes are the only multi-cellular organisms ever found at depths of 2.2 miles under the surface.

Esvelt's lab is working to create a daisy drive in two kinds of nematode worms and is looking at other species as well.

In collaboration with scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York, he's imaging how the brain of a nematode develops.

The custom - built device keeps samples chilled to — 320 degrees Fahrenheit, making it possible to flash - freeze nematodes or insects and then magnify them enormously to observe their behavior at a single moment in time.

The key proteins at work in the nematodes have highly similar counterparts in humans, suggesting that similar regulatory pathways may operate in people.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

Nematodes are becoming better at overcoming the resistance we have in current cultivars.

When Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, and colleagues grew the soil - dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in agar plates soaked in thioflavin T — a dye used to visualise clusters of amyloid beta protein — they found that the worms lived 30 to 70 per cent longer than average.

He presented his idea one day to a roomful of about 30 colleagues at Yale's «Worm Meeting,» the weekly gathering for researchers studying C. elegans, the lowly nematode widely used as a model organism in developmental biology.

In 2016, for example, scientists at Florida Atlantic University and the Scripps Research Institute for the first time induced seizures in nematodes, microscopic worms with just 302 brain cells.

«It's very surprising that the nematodes exhibited such a strong binary response to «cancer» versus «no cancer» urine,» says Michael Phillips at Menssana Research, a New Jersey - based company developing diagnostic tests based on people's breath.

With colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany), the KU Leuven researchers identified the metabolites that kill the nematodes.

In making this connection, Canadian biologist Siegfried Hekimi and his colleagues at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, looked at clk -1-mutant nematodes and found that they develop, eat, defecate, and even move at a more relaxed pace than their normal counterparts.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

«Technology is changing all the time, we're gaining new tools constantly, so you never know when something new is going to allow us to do something specific at the site of nematode feeding that will lead to a breakthrough.»

When they took away the ability of the nematode to secrete cytokinin certain cell cycle genes were not activated at the feeding site and the nematodes did not develop.

The beet cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii) sucks at a plant root.

Scientists at the University of Bonn together with an international team discovered that nematodes produce a plant hormone to stimulate the growth of specific feeding cells in the roots.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

This limits the invasion of the roots by nematodes, reduces the nematodes» fecundity and compromises the formation of root galls,» explains Dr. Ainhoa Martinez - Medina, first author of the study and scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich - Schiller - University Jena (FSU).

«Honestly, I thought I should have gotten in a while ago,» says Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California at San Francisco, whose two decades of research since the 1980s on the developmental biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans finally earned her a place in the National Academy.

Scientists at the Buck Institute combined mutations in two pathways well - known for lifespan extension and report a synergistic five-fold extension of longevity in the nematode C. elegans.

According to Richard Durbin, who leads the project's informatics team, computer techniques seem to find most of the genes sequenced so far but frequently missed some pieces of them, particularly the short coding regions that occur at the beginning of many nematode genes.

The genome shares about 60 % of its genes with the other invertebrates completely sequenced, such as the nematode and fruit fly, whereas about 5 % match sequences found only — up to now, at least — in the human, mouse, and puffer fish genomes.

By looking at fragments in more detail the researchers could work out how to align them in the order they appear on the nematode's chromosomes.

Proposals for the project have come from John Sulston, who heads a prestigious Anglo - American project to sequence the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans at the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

In 1985, as a new assistant professor at Harvard, he started his own lab at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, focusing on developmental genetics in the nematode.

Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues previously showed that it was possible to reassign one of these stop codons to incorporate an «unnatural» amino acid instead, and last year they engineered nematode worms to manufacture such proteins.

Now, scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have characterized a small heat shock protein responsible for embryonic development in the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode.

The correct positioning of the process of a postembryonic sensory neuron, the touch cell AVM of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, at its synaptic targets requires the presence of a pair of embryonic interneurons, the BDU cells.

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.

When Oliveira and colleagues looked at the leaves under an electron microscope, they noticed tiny roundworms called nematodes sitting on the leaves (inset image).

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

Now a group led by David Gems at University College London has found that nematode worms and fruit flies genetically modified to have more of key sirtuins owe their longevity to unrelated genetic factors.

There have been several recent reports of life at great depths, with nematode worms found living 3 kilometres down in a gold mine, for instance.

The larvae are well able to defend themselves: they can sense the nematodes and move away — and the entry points are protected, by jaws at one end and a ring of bristles at the other.

Now researchers have found that at least one of these genes also functions in nematodes.

In addition to some previously described nematodes, which scientists had never before seen living at this extreme depth, the researchers discovered a new species of nematode that subsists on microbes and requires only trace amounts of oxygen.

So he contacted Gaetan Borgonie, a nematologist at Ghent University in Belgium, who collected and filtered tens of thousands of liters of water samples from five mines in the area to find the rare creatures, which belong to the worm group called nematodes.

In the other study, Anne Brunet, a geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues found that in nematodes, the mere trace of one sex also seems to reduce the survival of the other.

Even the deepest parts of the ocean — with pressures up to 1000 times that at the surface — are buzzing with shrimp - like creatures called amphipods, as well as sea cucumbers, nematodes and other worms, and bacteria.

Rudolph Tanzi and Robert Moir, who study neurodegeneration at Harvard MGH, sought to test whether amyloid - β might protect mice, Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, and human cells in culture from invasion by various microbes.

Lithgow's recent work at the Buck Institute with the nematode C. elegans (a type of worm) has shown how iron accumulation can accelerate the aging process.

Daniel will be looking at the relationship between metal toxicity and aging in the nematode worm C. elegans — a new area of inquiry in the Lithgow lab.

«All of these nematodes speak the same chemical language,» through the use of compounds called ascarosides, said study co-author Frank Schroeder, a research scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research and adjunct assistant professor in Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

The field trials are part of TSL's Potato Partnership Project to develop a Maris Piper potato that is blight and nematode resistant, bruises less and produces less acrylamide when cooked at high temperatures.