Sentences with phrase «of microbial»

Data and samples observed by the rover showed the previous presence of lakes and freshwater that are essential in the survival of microbial life.

«More research is needed to assess whether graphitic carbon in the oldest sedimentary rocks belongs to these rocks and if it indicates the existence of microbial ecosystems on the earliest Earth,» lead author Papineau said.

The human body alone is estimated to contain as many microbes as human cells — about 40 trillion according to new estimates; and a few grams of soil may contain tens or even hundreds of thousands of microbial species.

The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.

The mix of microbial species in these communities oscillates throughout the day.

Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania are working on improving the efficiency of microbial fuel cells (MFC) by using modified graphite felt.

«I view the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge as a catalyst, a program that brings new approaches and new people into the field to rapidly increase our understanding of microbial communities» functions and mechanisms,» said Tim Donohue, Past President, ASM.

The new study «counters the notion that soil bacteria are an exhausted source of natural products, and it opens the door to begin to explore the remaining 99 % of microbial diversity that traditional culture - dependent approaches have missed,» says Steven G. Van Lanen of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Toxicity assessment of pharmaceutical compounds on mixed culture from activated sludge using respirometric technique: The role of microbial community structure — I.A. Vasiliadou, Science of The Total Environment

Brussels, Belgium, 9 December 2016 — A Canadian researcher, Dr. Lori Ziolkowski, has been awarded the prestigious $ 150,000 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for her proposal to study radiocarbon estimates of microbial activity and carbon accumulation surrounding the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station.

Again applying his knowledge of microbial communities» consumption patterns, his system there derived some of the chemicals and energy required for treatment from the sludge itself, thereby offsetting a percentage of the required chemical and energy inputs.

Following the isolation and purification of microbial DNA from all samples, we used community fingerprinting (ARISA) and high - throughput sequencing of the 16s ribosomal RNA gene (V1 - V3) to describe the microbial community structure in each group.

We might be able to feed the world better if you knew who the members of the microbial communities are, who the friendlies are, and how to enhance their activities.

So why can't we tap into the abilities of individual microbes, or the teamwork of microbial communities, to spark a «green» chemical revolution?

MAIT cells can be activated either through direct recognition of microbial ligands or by inflammatory cytokines such as IL - 12 and IL - 18.

In contrast, previous research suggests that variations in the composition of microbial communities may contribute to chronic health conditions, including diabetes, asthma, obesity and digestive disorders.

In a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of study, researchers aim to decipher which of these microbial players are key to certain diseases, and which can be targeted to develop new therapies for patients.

With the cardiovascular studies of microbial byproducts of meat digestion?

Analogous methods for targeted manipulation of microbial species in an ecosystem could play a similarly transformative role in dissecting microbial function.

Further, future studies will take advantage of the induced non-human primate animal model of endometriosis allowing for the measurement of microbial changes throughout disease progression.

Suddenly, it was possible to scan the overall composition of habitats as diverse as stagnant bogs and frozen tundra, producing a detailed portrait of the microbial life they held.

PhD position Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Infectious Ecosystems, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

Rob is a leading microbiome researcher who is at the forefront of microbial research.

Bioerosion is the removal of mineralised substrate through the action of organisms, and has been found to be the most common form of microbial attack of archaeological bone (Figure 1).

Most strikingly, the warmest soil sample in Jansson's study — the spongy bog soil — revealed an array of microbial genes and proteins involved in the production of methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

Decomposer food web in a deciduous forest shows high share of generalist microorganisms and importance of microbial biomass recycling — Ruben López - Mondéjar, The ISME Journal

KTU researchers are testing the qualities and biocompatibility of MFC anodes, as the efficiency of microbial fuel cells by large part depend on them.

Antibiotics as Instigators of Microbial Dysbiosis: Implications for Asthma and Allergy — Tomasz P. Wypych — Trends in Immunology

«But it may also give us a greater understanding of the invisible ecosystems of microbial life that we know are all around us, but that we don't fully comprehend,» says Neal Grantham, a Ph.D. student in statistics at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

One of the biggest issues is many of the microbial strains in a given person have never been sequenced.

Researchers have shown that the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversion of biomass can yield valuable products.

Additionally, ASM promotes a deeper understanding of the microbial sciences to diverse audiences.

The striking similarity of the recipient's and donor's intestinal microbiota following after bacteriotherapy suggests that the donor's bacteria quickly occupied their requisite niches resulting in restoration of both the structure and function of the microbial communities present.

They validated their method by comparing it to about 40 other methods of microbial source tracking in a California study.

Well - controlled, experimental studies of the influence of microbial ecology, disinfectant type, pipe materials, and water age, on opportunistic pathogen occurrence and persistence are needed in order to establish their relationships to drug resistance.»

To read «Nearing the cold - arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica» by Jacqueline Goordial et al in The ISME Journal: 10.1038 / ismej.2015.239

The team, led by Professor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics at Warwick Medical School, working with Helen Donoghue at University College London and collaborators in Birmingham and Budapest, sought to use the technique to identify TB DNA in a historical specimen.

«What we've done since then is develop a reference library of the microbial communities that occur in different types of poop — we have cows, horses, raccoons, humans, different types of birds, pigs, sea lions, and other animals, as well as sewage and septage.

«Instead of targeting one organism, we're essentially getting a fingerprint of the microbial community of potential sources in that sample.

Now scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a highly accurate, DNA - based method to detect and distinguish sources of microbial contamination in water.

Metagenomics poses many analysis challenges, from errors reading DNA sequences to decoding which sequences come from which of the hundreds of microbial species in a microbiome sample.

«This discovery is a quantum leap forward in our understanding of microbial PCB dechlorination and hence open up new possibilities of developing more effective ways of destroying PCBs in our environment,» said Assoc Prof He.

The research team includes Dr. Masanori Miyata and Dr. Ji - Yun Lee at Georgia State; Dr. Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences at Yale University; Dr. Koichi S. Kobayashi, professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center; and Dr. Hirofumi Kai at Kumamoto University in Japan.

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).

Thereby, bioelectrorefineries integrate biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and chemicals from biomass, and are based on the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversions,» Harnisch says.

This research makes important contributions to the fields of microbial diversity in extreme environments and bioremediation.

«The antimicrobial results of this technology are good,» says Annalisa Pantosti, an expert of microbial resistance from the Italian National Health Institute ISS, in Rome.

This opens up the possiblity of developing a natural herbicide on the basis of a microbial toxin which would act very selectively — and therefore in a much more environmentally - friendly way than common herbicides today such as Glyphosate.

The first traces of life appear in the fossil record around 3.5 billion years ago in the form of microbial mounds in Western Australia known as stromatolites.

HGS's attempts to delay the release of microbial sequencing data raised tensions to the boiling point.