Our bodies are home to many TRILLIONS
of microbial organisms (aka.
This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but it describes the amazing life - cycles
of microbial organisms that form the biological soil crusts (BSCs) of Earth's deserts.
Not exact matches
And Noah saved 2
of every known
microbial organism, herded onto this boat from every continent, including arctic wolves and polar bears.
These foods contain trillions
of healthy
microbial organisms, live enzymes and L - glutamine which is the major amino acid that is needed to produce healthy intestinal cells.
While the Rockland County Commissioner
of Health Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for
microbial growth; may indicate the presence
of disease causing
organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune systems.
A
microbial fuel cell, for example, could generate electricity by capturing electrons from the bacteria on electrodes instead
of the rocks that these
organisms evolved to breathe.
Microbial geneticists Paul Rainey and Michael Travisano
of Oxford University wanted to examine diversification in simpler
organisms within the confines
of the lab.
But the team hopes the Lake Whillans
microbial community can help it understand so - called extremophile
organisms that can exist in the extreme dark and cold, and how such microbes might also be affecting the chemistry
of the ice itself.
The interesting thing about the research is that Madsen's team was able to isolate the
organism that was actually responsible for what they saw in the field, says
microbial biologist Norman Pace
of the University
of Colorado, Boulder.
And so the
microbial world was delegated to an invisible world in the 18th century — as natural philosophers turned to questions about the evolution
of plants and animals, and the geologic structures that contained fossil remains
of extinct
organisms.
Designed to examine how spaceflight affects potentially infectious
organisms, the Micro-8 investigation will provide new insights into better management and treatment
of C. albicans infections when they occur on Earth as well as in space, and may offer ways to combat other
microbial pathogens.
Closer to home, scientists are designing devices that could be deployed on Mars or Europa, one
of Jupiter's moons, to detect
microbial organisms.
Both these categories
of organisms (phyla) contain
microbial species that can break down complex carbohydrates, resulting in the production
of SCFAs.
Only a small percentage
of those microbes can be isolated and grown in the lab — so Iverson and the team skipped those steps, sequencing a whole
microbial community and proceeding algorithmically to disentangle details
of the individual
organisms in the community.
«Since the
microbial community is a critical part
of a food web, global warming will have direct impacts on
organisms feeding on plankton... What exactly and how large this impact will be will require more data to understand.»
It did, however, temporarily suppress four distinct
organisms early in life during the critical window
of microbial colonization: Lactobacillus, Allobaculum, Candidatus Arthromitus, and an unnamed member
of the Rikenellaceae family, which may have important metabolic and immunological interactions.
Viral infections simultaneously reduce the amount
of nutrients and materials available to larger
organisms by killing
microbial cells, but also stimulate
microbial activity through the release
of organic matter and nutrients, which provides increased biomass available for larger
organisms including fish.»
Simultaneous sequence analysis
of all
organisms in filtered samples from the Sargasso Sea indicates the presence
of over 1800 species, with unexpectedly large
microbial diversity.
«This should not only expedite scientific discovery, but help us better engineer
microbial organisms to further biotechnology and medicine,» says Dr. Chase Beisel, an assistant professor
of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and senior author
of a paper on the work.
«Instead
of targeting one
organism, we're essentially getting a fingerprint
of the
microbial community
of potential sources in that sample.
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).
She added, «New model systems will be a magnet for people from outside the field
of marine
microbial ecology as they will suddenly be able to work with marine microbes in ways that they are used to working with other model
organisms.»
Using a
microbial community veers from the approach typically taken
of using isolated
organisms to obtain enzymes.
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of vertebrate
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Manmade production
of ammonia and nitrate fertilizers has exploded in recent decades and now vastly exceeds the amount
of atmospheric nitrogen converted into reactive nitrogen by
microbial organisms around the world.
Still, he said, the new data, «has important implications for understanding the genesis
of cancer and the interaction between human cells and other
microbial or viral
organisms in or around us.»
Plant, root, and soil microbiome Photoautotrophic
organisms control
microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types
of biological soil crusts.
Plants are sessile
organisms living in complex environments in which they are continuously exposed to a broad range
of microbial pathogens.
While our expectations have changed from the idea
of cities and walking, talking Martians, to the thought that
microbial organisms may lie deep beneath Mars» surface, this hope hasn't died.
Today, microbes continue to evolve in response to an ever - changing environment, and
microbial ecosystems still govern the biogeochemical cycling
of the planet and profoundly affect the function
of all other living
organisms.
Inspired by a 2009 FCL team retreat and field trip to Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, coauthors David Jacobs, Roger Summons, David Johnston, and Marc Laflamme used models
of canopy flow to explain how sticking up into the water column provided rangeomorphs, some
of these earliest multicellular
organisms preserved at Mistaken Point, a competitive advantage over
microbial mats.
For years scientists have prioritised studying human - related
organisms and, therefore, have excluded the vast majority
of the
microbial world, biasing our view
of the extant biodiversity.
These
organisms have been implicated in a range
of potential applications including biophotovoltaics,
microbial fuel cells, bioremediation
of heavy metals and more.
«Some different
microbial species, derived from samples
of [two] meteorites, have been cultured, cloned and classified by 16S rDNA typing and found to be not essentially different from present day
organisms [here on Earth]; they also appear sensitive to growth inhibition by specific antibiotics.»
Where the roughly one billion probiotic
organisms per serving
of yogurt work to feed and clean your gut bacteria and intestinal tract, the up to 40 billion in a cup
of kefir actually work to repopulate and colonize your
microbial population.
Instead
of any one particular
organism associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, they observed significant shifts in
microbial populations between healthy subjects and those with disease, including a loss
of normally protective bacterial populations.
The paper, which appears in the August issue
of the US - based journal, Pediatrics, suggests childhood exposure to
microbial organisms via thumb - sucking and nail - biting could reduce the risk
of developing allergies.
Moisture is one
of the key ingredients needed by fungi and other
microbial organisms to grow and proliferate.
«In Methanoflorens, we discovered the
microbial equivalent
of an elephant, an
organism that plays an enormously important role in what happens to the whole ecosystem.»
Some
of this exchange is mediated by
microbial marine
organisms through photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide is converted into organic matter, and respiration, in which the latter is metabolized.
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