Sentences with phrase «production by microbes»

«Designer biosensor can detect antibiotic production by microbes.»

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Supply of limited resources is being further constrained by more severe and unpredictable climate events and more potent microbes, pests and diseases — causing food producers to more seriously consider the environmental life cycle impact of food production activities.

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.

Previous experiments by Jansson and collaborators have shown that thawing frozen soil in the lab quickly leads to a burst of methane production, along with a change in the community of microbes.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

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.

It jams up an enzyme crucial to the production of methane by microbes that live inside the animals.

This is done by halting the production of the CRISPR RNAs, which allows affected genes to begin transcribing again as the microbes reproduce and the remaining CRISPR RNA degrades.

The sequencing of M. jannaschii was funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE)'s Microbial Genome Project, which, since 1994, has investigated microbes that might be useful in environmental cleanup, energy production, or other aspects of DOE's mission.

This is because colloidal silver doesn't poison the microbes like antibiotics do, but rather smothers them by adhering to their cell walls and inhibiting their enzyme production.

There's been a lot of hype on this topic, suggesting that it can massively increase soil carbon sequestration, boost food production by promoting soil microbes, and help us slow global climate change in the process.

By harnessing the power of microbes that his scientists have discovered deep in the sea and under the ground, he thinks we could revolutionise fuel production and bring down emissions.