Sentences with phrase «of tiny microbes»

Today, the impact of tiny microbes on the massive problem of plastic pollution is negligible.

In a paper published this month in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the researchers, including Prashanta Dutta, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Akron, present an improved and more effective Coulter device, used for the detection of the tiny microbes.

Not exact matches

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

Lacticin 3147, a tiny protein made up of two peptide units, has been shown by researchers at the Teagasc Dairy Products Research Centre in Ireland and University College Cork to be effective in suppressing microbes in foods.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

Obesity is linked to changes in our gut microbes — the trillions of tiny organisms that inhabit our intestines.

I used to work down the hall from him, so I'm sure that some of my enthusiasm for the tiny creatures can be blamed on him, along with USC's out - of - control microbe - lover Ken Nealson (Shewanella oneidensis is his bug, among others).

Recent lab tests show that tiny amounts of alligator blood extract — some scientists call it alligacin — kill many microbes, including Methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and help fight HIV.

The study of microbes is likely to dominate scientific research in the years to come as efforts to inventory the tiny creatures advance.

The search for tiny, microscopic forms of life, including fossilized microbes, requires specialized instruments and cooperation between field researchers and instrument builders.

«The unique thing about this model is that it simulates the life and death of individual microorganisms in a tiny space, and can encompass the positive and negative influences between neighboring microbes,» says Kaiser.

The tiny microbe works its magic at near - boiling temperatures, providing the first example of a blue - green alga capable of juggling multiple forms of energy production in such an inhospitable environment.

Take a look at your body like never before — from the intricate geometry of your hormones to the tiny architecture of the microbes that infect you — in this selection of images from the new book Science is Beautiful.

Our microbiomes — the microbes that live on and in us — are gaining cred as tiny but powerful keepers of our health.

Today such clay minerals form in soil when organisms such as microbes or fungi interact with tiny bits of weathered rock.

In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered something unusual: phytoplankton, tiny microbes at the base of the marine food chain, are thriving.

The fossils of tiny marine animals found in Canada this year may hold the key to how life evolved from microbes to humans.

n isolated, iron - rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theories that tiny microbes created some of the world's largest ore deposits billions of years ago.

A tiny microbe one day could devour the millions of metric tons of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, that pile up in landfills each year.

«We had quite sophisticated ecological communities back then, even if they were just tiny little microbes,» says astrobiologist Roger Buick of the University of Washington, who discovered the North Pole stromatolites.

Not many, by microbial standards — 300 cells in 1 milliliter of ice vs. 100,000 cells in seawater — but they're there, in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice and serve as «little houses,» Priscu said, which also contain nutrients that could feed a hungry microbe.

Asgard is a group of microbes, described for the first time in the journal Nature this week, that may well include the organism that gave rise to all complex life — from the tiniest eukaryotes to the tallest redwoods, the dinosaurs and us.

Your gut contains trillions of bacteria and tiny microbes — collectively called the microbiome — that mainly help with digestion and other bodily functions.

Covering everything about science and technology — from the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies — Science Friday is your source for entertaining and educational stories and activities.

Tiny ocean microbes produce half of the oxygen we breathe, and they are important drivers in chemical reactions and energy transfers that fuel critical ecological processes.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

«for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.

Don't be deceived by its tiny stature and minuscule lifespan; this cell can capture bubonic plague in a web of its own DNA, spew out enzymes to digest anthrax and die in a kamikaze blaze of microbe - massacring glory.

The discovery of microbes — those single - celled organisms that exist by the millions in a drop of water, blood, or tiny patch of any living tissue — was a game - changer, scientifically speaking.

It can be as tiny as a microbe or as large as a museum, which challenges the ability of institutions to contain, exhibit, and house it, both conceptually and physically.