Sentences with phrase «of microbial contaminants»

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SENTRY is a bio-electrode sensor platform that allows for real - time monitoring of microbial activity and key wastewater contaminants in wastewater treatment facilities.

Drilling equipment and fluid that is dumped down the borehole to keep it open may introduce microbial contaminants into the waters of the lake under the drill station (also called Vostok), making it impossible for scientists to know what was there naturally.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

Part of the problem is the lack of resources we ourselves direct to food from abroad: The FDA has a minuscule team of some 1,500 inspectors devoted to food imports, a workforce too small to screen more than a tiny fraction of the food that arrives at U.S. ports each year for microbial pathogens or other disease - causing contaminants.

The researchers conclude that chemical changes to two of the beers were likely caused by microbial contaminants while the third beer, which was better preserved, offered the best insights into the older brews» natural aging processes.

Much of what they sequenced turned out to be microbial contaminants, as expected, but 6 percent was cave bear nuclear DNA, including bits of 21 genes.

• Microbial / viral detection The unit offers detection screening assays for numerous bacterial and viral contaminants of animal house colonies.

Rhizoremediation of Environmental Contaminants Using Microbial Communities — Ashish A. Prabhu, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Investigating antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, and microbial contaminants in groundwater in relation to the proximity of urban areas — Edina Szekeres — Environmental Pollution