Moisture is one of the key ingredients needed by fungi and
other microbial organisms to grow and proliferate.
Not exact matches
Other topic areas include studying materials that form in temperatures above 2000 °C, using quantum physics to create better computers, and studying how
microbial communities may help host
organisms respond to stress.
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.
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.»
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.»
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.