Sentences with phrase «of dangerous microbes»

By releasing some of their DNA, B cells like these may be able to alert other immune cells to the presence of dangerous microbes.

Not exact matches

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

Presumably, most of these genes reside inside live bacteria, but a microbe doesn't have to be alive to share its dangerous DNA.

«We just tune the charge of the nanoparticle to selectively go after the dangerous microbe.»

When E. coli is heated to dangerous temperatures, for example, it can rapidly churn out thousands of heat - shock proteins, molecules that help protect the microbe's workings.

Genetic assays can pinpoint particularly dangerous strains of otherwise mild microbes.

Early results show that the capsules have cured 32 people infected with drug - resistant Clostridium difficile, a dangerous microbe that installs itself in the gut and causes inflammation marked by diarrhea, cramping and pain.Thomas Louie, an infectious disease physician at the University of Calgary in Alberta, presented the data on October 3 at ID Week, a meeting of infectious disease specialists.

These benign microbes limit the spread of their dangerous brethren simply by being in the way.

Almost all multicellular animals have an arsenal of cells or molecules that broadly target potentially dangerous microbes.

When she and Duarte analyzed the microbes present, they realized the slime selectively killed some microbes, including fungi, but promoted the growth of others, perhaps to keep bacteria dangerous to the beetles or their larvae from settling on the carcass or to help the larvae better digest the meat.

Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to authorized medical procedures.

Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to...

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

These microbes essentially keep mug shots of dangerous viruses in their DNA, storing snippets of viral genes between certain repeated segments of their own genes in a natural biological process known as CRISPR, for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

But a recent experiment published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that a microbe can turn even more dangerous in space than on Earth.

Some of those microbes are dangerous indeed.

The meter - long distances that the research team was able to move the particles could open up new avenues for laser tweezers in the transport of dangerous substances and microbes, and for sample taking and biomedical research.

Those centers are designed to quickly identify dangerous microbes with the goal of stopping transmission as quickly as possible, says Halpin.

Over 100 trillion of these teeming microbes take up residence in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, where they are hard at work tearing apart food to extract useful vitamins and minerals, and taking a valiant stand against dangerous pathogenic invaders when needed.

Take this quiz to see if you have a dangerous imbalance of microbes in your gut.

All communal environments contain many different types of bacteria and microbes, and whilst not all are dangerous, there are some that are.