Sentences with phrase «of ancient microbes»

Local sea surface temperatures modified lipid (fat) molecules in the membranes of ancient microbes.

Within the Pilbara hotspring deposits, the researchers also discovered stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes.

The goal of this $ 2.5 million machine, the most ambitious ever sent to Mars, is geological: to analyse sediments that could have preserved organic compounds or other evidence of ancient microbes, if these were ever there.

Schuenemann had been studying the genetics of ancient microbes at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

But the work also finds that we've lost some of the ancient microbes that still inhabit our great ape cousins, which could explain some human diseases and even obesity and mental disorders.