Sentences with phrase «new microbes»

The efficiency with which microbes use their food to make new microbes affects how much carbon remains in soil, and how much is released back to the atmosphere.

We received many new microbes as we go about our daily lives.

For example, new microbes hop on when you play in the dirt or when a family member kisses your cheek.

This is because of the numbers of pupils in a classroom, the close and prolonged nature of their interaction, an almost constant supply of new microbes each school day, isolated cleaning practices and the knowledge that bacteria can survive and thrive on surfaces for many hours or even days.

It's not just for the sociability of exchanging interesting new microbes in the waiting room, or the pride in hearing my doctor mutter with approval when I hand her the 58 - page printout of all the illnesses I've self - diagnosed based on what I've read on the Internet.

«We know very well how these processes work in laboratory studies, and can predict which carbon atoms in sugar molecules end up as carbon dioxide, and which are used to build new microbes.

Stirring a few new microbes into the already - colonized pot doesn't always have the desired effect, making it difficult to use them to our advantage.

We also plan to study the microbiology in the ocean crust, to see if there are new microbes at these great depths.

Was it the circle of life or just new microbe migrants creating new populations?

So, you can basically manipulate the microbiome by providing new microbes (and the genetic material they hold) and / or substrates that microbes feed on.

After a time, new microbes move into the heated patches and eat up harder - to - digest material, such as lignin, the stuff that makes wood hard.

In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

Evolutionary biologists reason that keeping us alive and pumping out new microbes would be an excellent strategy for such a bug, which might therefore evolve to be less, not more, virulent over time.

The discovery also shows that it doesn't take major migrations to bring in new microbes.

These new microbes — led by one particular unusually long (20 microns), yet to be named species that made up more roughly 95 percent of the community responding to the spill — had consumed roughly 8 percent of the available oxygen in these cold, deep waters as they busily converted hydrocarbons into more microbial cells, limited only by a lack of iron.

Treatment plant operators now have to weigh the advantages of these new microbes against their implementation challenges.

Research on microbiome links to obesity, for instance, suggests that a new «skinny» microbiome has to be accompanied by a switch to a diet lower in fat and calories, or else the new microbes will just be outcompeted.

The next step will be to discover what the new microbes are like.

Each sample, uncontaminated by contact with the surface, revealed the same deep - earth ecosystem dominated by a new microbe related closely to the sulfate - reducing Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii that lives near vents on the ocean floor.

The new microbes add 20 major branches, or phyla, to the tree of life.

The new microbes could yield novel antibiotics, which are almost always discovered in bacteria and fungi.

Mitochondria provide energy for most eukaryotes, but not for a new microbe living in the guts of a chinchilla.

Gorillibacterium timonense sp. nov. and Vitreoscilla massiliensis sp. nov., two new bacterial species isolated from stool specimens of obese Amazonian patients — Sokhna Ndongo — New Microbes and New Infections

«Collinsella provencensis» sp. nov., «Parabacteroides bouchesdurhonensis» sp. nov., and «Sutterella seckii» sp. nov., three new bacterial species identified from human gut microbiota — Niokhor Dione — New Microbes and New Infections

His team built its new microbe from the ground up.

The new microbe is a stripped - down version of Mycoplasma mycoides (MY - ko - PLAZ - ma My - KOY - dees).

In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from SciLifeLab / Uppsala University presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

Yet microbes could respond, she added, by finding new ways to manipulate hosts — or even by striking a win - win deal with them: «A new microbe could evolve, this microbe could spread in the population, and while the microbe benefits, the host also benefits.»

Then, in 1984, we went to a meeting of microbiologists, who are always interested in any new microbe, and things really took off after that.

Technological challenges remain, such as the need for more efficient enzymes for saccharification, new microbes that can ferment multiple sugars, better integration of process steps, and improved methods for recovery of dilute ethanol.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.