Sentences with phrase «studied microbial systems»

«When we've studied microbial systems under similar doses to what you would have around these waste forms, it doesn't kill them,» says Lloyd.

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What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

The new study, by researchers at the University of Vienna and the International Institute of Applied System Analysis explores the role of microbial cheaters for soil carbon and nitrogen cycling using a computer model.

«In all of our studies, we're working with people who know the microbes well, and we help them decide how viruses might be helpful to the microbial system.

The challenge is to engineer a system where we get enough growth to have a productive microbial «chemical factory» but not so much that we can't channel enough of the sugars into a pathway to make large quantities of our target molecules,» says Kristala Prather, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study.

The study suggests a new method to show how microbial communities, including those responsible for illnesses like Legionnaires» disease, may assemble inside the plumbing systems of homes and public buildings.

When the data from all 62 studies were analyzed together, it turned out that microbial biomass and enzymatic activity were greater in no - till than in tilled systems.

The study suggests that since soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activity can stand in as proxies for soil quality, farmers should consider moving toward no - till or conservation tillage systems.

Besides its potential for future disease prevention, the researchers think their mutation prevention system could more immediately be used to help the biotech industry protect large - scale cultures from acquiring mutations that render them unproductive or prone to contaminations, and to study microbial evolution.

«Here we're cultivating an entire community of microbes to access enzymes that we couldn't get from isolates,» said study principal investigator Steve Singer, senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Biological Systems and Engineering Division and director of Microbial and Enzyme Discovery at JBEI.

«This is a tremendous innovation for in situ studies as a new means to interrogate the chemical language of microbial system interactions, as well as being relative to the discovery and development of new electrode materials for energy storage,» said Dr. Louis Terminello, who leads chemical imaging work at PNNL.

The study is the result of one the first collaborations from the Microbiome Center, a joint effort by the University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to support scientists at all three institutions who are developing new applications and tools to understand and harness the capabilities of microbial systems across different fields.

Caroline is working on adapting the Robogut model system to the culture of the mouse microbiome, in order to study how the microbial ecosystem of mice susceptible to colorectal cancer is perturbed during disease.

The same study noted that when your microbial ecosystem is in a state of dysbiosis, gut bacteria can produce substances like D - lactic acid and ammonia, which can exert neurotoxic properties and impede the function of the nervous system.

This advice comes from Dr. Jack Gilbert, a scientist at the University of Chicago who studies microbial ecosystems and recently published a book called Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for your Child's Developing Immune System.