Sentences with phrase «produced by microbes»

Primitive state: Biogenic uranite is produced by microbes.

The orbiter's chief objective is to tease out the trace constituents of the Martian atmosphere, particularly methane, a gas detected intermittently over the last decade that scientists think could be produced by microbes or undiscovered ongoing geological activity.

This opens up the opportunity to discover new types of enzymes that are only produced by microbes in communities.»

Compounds produced by microbes either cause changes in the gut directly or pass into the host's bloodstream and influence the central nervous system, possibly through neural, hormonal and immune pathways5.

However, many of the sources along the continental slope lie at cold depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

Because peptides produced by microbes, plants and animals can be harmful, the human body has evolved efficient ways to purge them.

«In order to do that, we first need to be able to detect the antibiotic molecules of interest produced by the microbes.»

In broccoli sprouts, its precursor, glucoraphanin, exists and is converted into sulforaphane by myrosinase contained in broccoli itself and produced by microbes in the gut.

Not exact matches

Vitamin B12 is a microbe — a bacteria — it is produced by microorganisms.

TCA is produced when some amount of chlorine in the environment is metabolized by a microbe.

While fermentation is not a new process, and producing sweeteners by feeding microbes is arguably more sustainable than growing acres of stevia plants just to extract components from their leaves, it is unclear how the market will respond to EverSweet, given that the reason food and beverage manufacturers started experimenting with stevia in the first place was precisely due to its «natural» credentials (it's from a leaf).

The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheeseMicrobes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheesemicrobes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

It just makes so much sense to me that the spontaneous natural proliferation of microbes that create lacto fermentation happens simply by adding water and some salt to produce, and those same bacteria that preserve and increase the nutrition of the food make our bodies benefit in a multitude of ways too!

As contaminated pathogenic air is processed through a patented bio-conversion reactor bed, this green technology, integrated with Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO), works in unison to destroy harmful airborne microbes and dismantle volatile organic compounds (VOC) while producing no by - products.

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

Compared with untreated cows» dung, microbes in dung produced by treated cows were less diverse and dominated by a genus with documented resistance, the researchers report May 25 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

At Stanford, a team led by neurobiologist Ben Barres discovered that synapses in the developing brain produce two other immune proteins, C1q and C3, associated elsewhere in the body with complement proteins, which work in concert with antibodies to destroy invading microbes.

Is it an enzyme produced by the worm itself or by its gut microbes?

But Keasling has estimated in the past that a mere 40.5 million hectares of Miscanthus giganteus — a more than three - meter tall Asian grass — chewed up by specially engineered microbes, like the E. coli here, could produce enough fuel to meet all U.S. transportation needs.

Antimicrobial peptides, produced by all living organisms as part of their immune defenses, kill microbes in several different ways.

The scientists say their light - responsive circuit could help control the flux of metabolic pathways in vats of microbes used to produce pharmaceuticals or industrial chemicals, by turning on and off in response to red, green, and blue light — a veritable bacterial disco.

Trying to use all of the energy produced by bacterial metabolism wouldn't leave enough for the microbes to grow, reproduce, and thrive.

In a study led by the University of Montana and co-authored by Purdue mycologist M. Catherine Aime, researchers show that lichens across six continents also contain basidiomycete yeasts, single - celled fungi that likely produce chemicals that help lichens ward off predators and repel microbes.

And perhaps surprisingly, these molecules are not produced by human cells, but by a person's gut microbes as they process food in the diet.

Microbes oxidase this methane as a source of energy and produce carbonate deposits as a by - product.

The toxins produced by these particular microbes are capable of causing inflammation and necrosis (death and decay) of intestinal wall — hence the process is called enteritis necroticans.

The sulphur - containing molecule methyl mercaptan is naturally produced in significant quantities on Earth only by microbes, including some that make their pungent presence known in the human body.

Bioprocess engineer Rafael Garcia of ARS and biochemical engineer Zhiyou Wen of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg are designing a study to grow EPA - and DHA - producing microbes using low - cost by - products of other processes, such as glycerol from biodiesel production and rendered animal protein from slaughterhouses.

The compound might help the animal defend against predatory fish, or it might actually be produced by symbiotic microbes living on the creature's surface.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

But by the end of the experiment — when performance was at its peak — one species, Brevibacillus agri, made up the majority of the electron - producing microbes.

As they break down particles of food, some of these microbes produce and secrete acids as a by - product.

In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.

The compound is produced by one species of nose - dwelling bacterium to kill another microbe, which kills thousands of people every year.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

Microbes, he argued, don't just happen to spoil food when they gorge on it; they have evolved to make it unappetizing to large animals as fast as possible — for instance by producing bad - tasting compounds — so they can keep the meal to themselves.

Frost and his colleagues anticipate that, by expressing the gene for the dehydrogenase enzyme, they should be able to produce a microbe that can synthesise quinic acid from an appropriate starting material.

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

Eating food or drinking water contaminated by shiga - producing bacteria typically causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloody diarrhea, and the microbes can be lethal, often by damaging the kidneys so severely that the organs shut down.

But day and night, plants, microbes and animals like humans are always producing CO2 by respiration, which is the breaking down of organic material (food) to get the energy out of it, releasing CO2 in the process.

Thus, it seems like a circular argument: to produce methane (by microbes), one needs methane.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

Brady says his group's findings suggest that scientists have yet to characterize most of the lipopeptides produced by soil microbes.

Our CRISPR - Cas technology will also unlock the potential of microbes to bioproduce chemicals and enzymes never before produced by fermentation.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

The finding suggests that microbes with the ability to produce oxygen were prolific at least locally around 3.46 billion years ago, releasing large quantities of this reactive molecular gas into the oceans and eventually the atmosphere by the end of this period (more).

By producing proteins that slice and recombine carbon dioxide molecules, these microbes work in tandem with the grasses to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into solid, carbon - rich biological matter that gets stored underground.

The ammonium is likely produced by bacteria that eat dead microbes in the lake.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.