Sentences with phrase «other microbes»

Note that under no circumstances would this include remediation of other microbes in, on, or about the structure, walls, or permanent fixtures of the home.

Note that under no circumstances would this include remediation of other microbes in, on, or about the structure, walls, or permanent fixtures of the home.

They would be created through the process of lateral gene transfer, in which microbes incorporate loose bits of genetic material from other microbes into their own.

If these bacteria happen to come into contact with other microbes that carry resistance genes, those genes can pop over in one step.

Copper has long been known to effectively kill bacteria and other microbes on contact.

Their genes suggest they consume methane, which by itself is not surprising, as many other microbes use this as a source of energy.

The animals also were living in a sterile environment without other microbes.

Along with animal studies, these observations suggest that the balance of bacteria and other microbes help guide immune development — and that when the balance is disrupted, disease may follow.

The fungi are grown on pine bark, which contains compounds that prevent the growth of other microbes which makes it a good growing medium for fungi.

These genes are custom add - ons that specific strains have acquired over time, from their environment or from other microbes — something like an expansion pack for a card game.

There are two main problems caused by bacteria and other microbes in water: they can make the water toxic, and make it smell bad.

Thousands of years later, the ancient therapeutic is being embraced by some hospitals because of its ability to kill bacteria and other microbes on contact, which can help reduce deadly infections.

More than 100 trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live as squatters in your gut.

Human cells are outnumbered by other microbes by 10 to 1.

It is based on a certain enzyme known as C2c2, which helps keep bacteria protected against other microbes such as viruses.

Researchers will also need to investigate how S. gallolyticus works with or against other microbes that live in the colon, says Ran Blekhman, a geneticist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

We envision that the broad - host range toolbox developed here will serve as a turnkey foundation for developing a robust set of metabolic engineering tools for other microbes of interest by simplifying and streamlining the process of screening for functional expression systems that operate within the microbe of interest.

BACTERIA AND OTHER MICROBES interact in diverse populations...

Skimmers, scoops and thousands of kilometers of booms can not compare with bacteria and other microbes when it comes to removing oil.

So the bacteria evidently form a sort of conductive chain, comprising biological nanowires and possibly pyrite grains embedded in the mud, that allows electrons from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and carbon within the sediment to contribute to the reduction of oxygen by other microbes at the sediment surface.

The higher acidity of the souring process keeps other microbes (that can be harmful to humans) from forming.

Fetuses are bacterially naive, with little exposure to pathogens or other microbes before birth.

Microbes use these minerals as their energy, turning out waste products that other microbes use as energy.

But by outcompeting other microbes, robust yeast strains could prevent such infelicitous variability in taste.»

And knowing bacteria have a maximum size has inspired biologists to look more carefully at how other microbes, such as single - cell eukaryotes, get around this limitation.

Their survey is part of a growing push to look beyond the bacteria that make up the much - discussed microbiome to find other microbes that naturally inhabit the human body and may influence health and disease.

Lane, for one, is unconvinced that Loki can engulf other microbes — without a mitochondrion, he says, it simply lacks the power.

So other microbes «denitrify» ecosystems, converting the element back into forms not available for living things.

(Other microbes turn over less than 50 percent.)

Thus, the measles virus might cause what the scientists termed immunological amnesia, impairing the immune system's ability to remember and quickly eliminate other microbes it has already beaten.

Even then, however, it will be hard to prove that microbes are actually targeting large animals; they could also be trying to repel other microbes, Kaspari argues.

Here, slow - growing bacteria and other microbes flourish in masses called biofilms.

Pharmaceutical companies can spend hundreds of millions of dollars setting up and maintaining facilities where bacteria and other microbes churn out therapeutic proteins by the barrel.

Pedler, Aluwihare, and Azam are now developing experiments to test other microbes and their individual abilities to consume carbon.

A second blow is that with the full genome sequence in hand, for Aquifex and a dozen other microbes, biologists can draw up family trees based on other genes besides the ribosomal RNA gene that provided the original map.

Other microbes identified by the team include ones that Scheiman believes help in energy metabolism, protein metabolism and anti-inflammation.

«By controlling the types of microbes that thrive around their roots, plants could be trying to protect themselves from less friendly pathogens while promoting other microbes that stimulate nutrient supply.

These organisms thrive where other microbes don't dare venture: boiling water holes, freezing lakes, and toxic waste dumps.

Metagenomic analyses of large groups of microorganisms can be used to evaluate how bacteria and other microbes behave when exposed to nanomaterials.

The team does not yet know why a bacterium produces toluene, but believe it could be because the bacterium is producing toluene as a toxin to outcompete other microbes in its environment.

The role of gut restoration in healing Yeasts, bacteria, and other microbes exist...

Germs have been strategizing against the effects of antimicrobial agents from a variety of sources (including other microbes) for billions of years.

June 20, 2016 Microbiota affect the rate of transplant acceptance and rejection Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that microbiota — the bacteria, viruses and other microbes living on the skin and in the digestive system — play an important role in the body's ability to accept transplanted skin and other organs.

Many belong to entirely new groups, as different from other microbes as an insect is from a chimpanzee.

While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field is severely blunted thanks to real - world environmental stressors like heat and drought, competition with other microbes, and interactions with the host plant.