Sentences with phrase «thinking about the microbes»

Donohue: It's really changed how I think about microbes.

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Has studying these various kinds of extreme, deep - dwelling microbes changed your thinking about what's necessary for life?

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

Stories on hints of dark matter at the dawn of the cosmos, what giant family trees can tell us about human behavior, and how people think they would react to alien microbes

If you think about these modes of transmission, in which it might be a decade before a person has another partner, you realize that rapidly replicating is not very valuable — the winning strategy for the microbe would be to keep a low profile, requiring persistent infections for years.

He thought creating a light - sensitive brain was probably impossible, but then an idea floated up: What about tapping the power of light - sensitive microbes, single - celled creatures that drift in water, turning toward or away from the sun to regulate energy intake?

Two recent Kavli Foundation spotlights highlighted the microbiome's powerful influence on the brain — which affects our emotions, our thoughts and even our memory — as well as how new knowledge about microbes is informing the next missions to search for life in our solar system.

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.

All the microbes in your gut weigh twice as much as your brain... and we think we're all about brain power!

You may initially feel uneasy about eating raw food, thinking that they are crawling with pathogenic microbes.

Critical thinking, problem solving, experimentation, learning about the universe, the oceans, microbes and, just the world in which we live...

Scientists must think about which microbes are «making the methane [and] what does that say about the isotopic signature of the methane in the atmosphere,» McCalley told Eos.

But hey, with an ever - expanding array of climate feedback loops to worry about — melting permafrost, shrinking sea ice, hungrier carbon - belching microbes, etc — we might be needing those maps sooner than we think.