Sentences with phrase «studied microbial life»

At Ames, Farmer studied microbial life in the hot springs at Yellowstone National Park, a project he began in 1989 while still at UCLA.

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Second, Neil Ross from Newcastle University in England, a co-author on the study, speculates that the lake could contain microbial life.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

Stefanie Lutz, a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invertebrates.

This is the most comprehensive study of microbial communities living on a glacier to date,» said Lutz.

«Without oxygen, the most sophisticated life on the earth would have been green microbial scum,» study author David Catling notes.

Mouse studies have shown that stress, particularly early in life, can change microbial communities, and not in a good way.

«Microbial life isn't easy to see, even today, so rocks that preserve evidence of ancient bacteria are hard to find and hard to study.»

She is a member of CIFAR's Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecMicrobial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecmicrobial life shapes all ecosystems.

This study has important implications for the search for deep microbial life.

Although amplicon has been the traditional workhorse for studies on microbial life, the spike in human microbiome research inspired many scientists to switch to shotgun, which is cheaper and generates more genetic information.

Commenting on the latest study, which he was not involved in, he says the findings represent «excellent news» for the possibility of detecting microbial life deep in the ocean.

Terry Hwa: I think the new study of the microbiome will show us two new aspects of microbial life: One is about the phenomena that only emerge when microbes are together in a group; another is about the phenomena that only make sense in the context of a group.

Biologists hadn't really studied glacial environments until the late 1990s when the first evidence of microbial life appeared.