Sentences with phrase «use of microbes»

Perhaps the same type of intervention is possible using some of the microbes that we are now discovering Westerners lack.

While Q Microbe is not a GMO — it is a naturally occurring anaerobe that lives under the soil — the company is confident that the patents it is pursuing on the use of the microbe for ethanol production will yield a valuable intellectual property portfolio.

Not exact matches

So while the use of copper also helps PangeaBed tackle the unsanitary environments we sleep in by killing microbes on contact, using copper also makes the comfort and quality of our sleep better.

It was no less reassuring to realize that the actual world they had faced — the world of mountains and microbes — though it had brought death to their bodies had first yielded up some of its secrets to their minds, for other men to use.

There are even microbes living on our eyelashes that are not visible except for the use of a microscope.

How do the microbes within cheese interact with the natural microbiota of the human gut and can cheese be used to assist in maintaining a healthy gut microbiota?

The researchers used specially born and raised mice having no gut microbes of their own, that then receive a transplant of 14 bacteria that normally grow in the human gut.

Take the risk out of by - product contamination by using the planets strongest, and safest oxidizer to assure microbe free surfaces.

California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

Yet another added benefit of using non-sugar sweeteners is that they do not feed bad microbes in the gut such as candida.

Secondly, by using this humidifier, eighty (80 %) percent or more of the airborne bacteria is rendered incapable because the ideal humidity level indoors discourages the microbe's growth and reproduction.

Growth is shown to be even better when mother's own milk is used, rather than pooled milk, likely because it is fresher and unprocessed, naturally customized to the maturity of the infant and because mother's exposure to the infant allows her to create customized antibodies in response to the microbes in the infant's body and environment.

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.

Yet many of the microbes of interest are currently unable to be cultivated for direct testing or probiotic use.

Using a variety of plants, animals, and microbes, the researchers will study the possibility that organisms can influence their own evolution and that inheritance can take place through routes other than the genetic material.

We've shown that the same sort of linking is possible using DNA sequences from microbes inhabiting the human body — no human DNA required.

Huge successes in the isolation and cultivation of marine microbial strains have been made by the EC - funded MaCuMBA (Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications) project, which aims to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation - dependent strategies.

The deadly Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany last year, which sickened more than 4,000 people and killed more than 50, may be traceable to modern factory farming, which uses massive doses of antibiotics to curb animal infections, likely converting a normally benign microbe into an antibiotic - resistant killer.

Mark Enright of Biocontrol Ltd, a firm in Bedfordshire, UK, that is developing ways to pit harmless microbes against infectious ones, favours using the live bacteria over the enzyme.

I used to work down the hall from him, so I'm sure that some of my enthusiasm for the tiny creatures can be blamed on him, along with USC's out - of - control microbe - lover Ken Nealson (Shewanella oneidensis is his bug, among others).

«It also may be possible to modify the test so that it could be used to detect pathogens other than viruses, including bacteria, fungi and other microbes, as well as genes that would indicate the pathogen is resistant to treatment with antibiotics or other drugs,» said co-author Kristine Wylie, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics.

Cobbling together the genes of three different species, chemical engineer Jay Keasling (Discover's 2006 Scientist of the Year) of the University of California at Berkeley transformed a metabolic pathway in yeast that allows the engineered microbe to produce a precursor to artemisinin, a compound used to treat malaria.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

«We thought we could use this information to link what's being consumed to the abundance of the microbes in the intact community, thereby linking the biology to the chemistry.»

Colman noted that in his previous in vitro studies of sediment he saw no effect on the amount of microbes present even though he used 1,250 milligrams of nano - silver per kilogram of sediment.

For both experiments, the researchers used much higher concentrations of microbes than those typically found on hospital surfaces, Koranteng said.

The microbes seemed to use at least two frequencies to communicate, one of which was in the ultraviolet (UV) range.

Instead of mitochondria (the cellular engines that convert oxygen to energy, present in all other known animal cells), these creatures contain structures resembling hydrogenosomes, the organelles that anaerobic microbes use to generate energy.

Using bacteria to extract metals from low - grade ores could be a solution: mining firms are using simple microbes that can extract up to 85 percent of metal in an ore and obtain metals when the concentrations are lower than 1 perUsing bacteria to extract metals from low - grade ores could be a solution: mining firms are using simple microbes that can extract up to 85 percent of metal in an ore and obtain metals when the concentrations are lower than 1 perusing simple microbes that can extract up to 85 percent of metal in an ore and obtain metals when the concentrations are lower than 1 percent.

Genetic tests to detect these microbes could be used by public health researchers trying to find and quarantine outbreaks of bird flu, for example, or by military personnel looking for evidence of a bioterror agent.

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.

In April, five post-doctoral fellowships were awarded for experiments using NASA's archive of more than a decade of microbes collected from the NASA modules of the space station.

In other words, for every kilowatt - hour of electricity used the microbes could scrub 130 grams of CO2 out of 230,000 liters of air to make 60 grams of isopropanol fuel.

The U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to I.D. microbes in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts and guts of more than 200 Americans.

What's more, «the predictable shift in microbial colonisation of a body means we can use microbes as a clock to estimate how long a body has been decomposing», says Bucheli.

If researchers can get a handle on the gut microbiome's role, Baranzini can imagine a day when probiotics can be used to shift the composition of microbes in the gut to reduce inflammation.

The reason for the sudden, explosive growth of the microbes, new evidence shows, may have been their novel ability to use a rich source of organic carbon, aided by a sudden influx of a nutrient required for their growth: the element nickel, emitted by massive volcanism at just that time.

«We are now using this method to look for new antibiotics from unique collections of microbes to find those that are active against antibiotic resistant bacteria,» she said.

Cleaning instruments regularly after use should reduce the risk of microbe growth, King says.

The compounds are very effective at keeping houses, hospitals, restaurants and other industries free of microbes and other contamination and are widely used.

These keratinocytes were then used to manufacture 3D epidermal equivalents in a high - to - low humidity environment to build a functional permeability barrier, which is essential in protecting the body from losing moisture, and preventing the entry of chemicals, toxins and microbes.

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

The researchers note that their computational approach can also be used to analyze microbial ecosystems found in soil, ocean, lakes and more to detect universal dynamics of microbes in these environments as well.

This «deep sequencing» technique has been used to characterize mixtures of microbes living in environments such as oceans and animal guts.

«Discovering new uses for different types of natural food grade microbes in waste - to - nutrient technology is the latest breakthrough by NTU chemical and bioengineers, which can help to address the food security issues faced by the world presently,» Assoc Prof Xu said.

«That's going to disrupt food chains that sustain the kinds of creatures we're used to seeing at the poles — sea lions, penguins, and whales — and instead promote a microbe - dominated community,» he says.

The platform, which uses microbes to glean ethanol from glycerol and has the added benefit of cleaning up the wastewater, will allow producers to reincorporate the ethanol and the water into the fuel - making process, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist and one of the co-authors.

The microbes secrete it and use it to build scaffolding around cells that supports the growth of biofilms.

Composting decays piles of food or manure as microbes decompose organic matter using oxygen to survive, grow and reproduce.

So, while we don't want to eliminate all of the bacteria and yeast microbes from our system, scientists are using the orbiting laboratory to discover ways to keep them in check on Earth and in space.