Sentences with phrase «used by some microbes»

Analysis of that sample showed that early Mars offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including the key elemental ingredients for life and a chemical energy source such as used by some microbes on Earth.

«This shows the permafrost carbon is definitely in a form that can be used by the microbes.»

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.

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

If you notice gas and bloating with the coconut milk it may be due to the guar and xanthum gum being used as fuel by bad microbes.

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.

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.

Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.

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 other is turned on when an insect regurgitates stomach contents containing microbes onto the plant triggering a response by the plant to microbial pathogens that uses salicylic acid.

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.

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.

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

«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.

Specifically, plants that are given a dose of microbes stay green longer and are able to withstand drought conditions by growing more leaves and roots and using less water.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

Using a sophisticated array of life - detection methods — the same methods being refined for the hunt for extraterrestrial life — Venkat has discovered a plethora of bizarre microbes thriving in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, microbes that would have escaped detection by older technologies.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

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.

«By knowing which microbes take over a dead body and how long it takes, forensic scientists might be able to use this technique to determine time of death or other aspects of a crime scene.»

In deeper parts of the ocean, the methane released from the ocean floor would likely never make it up to the atmosphere, since it would get used up by microbes before it reached the surface.

It also detected perchlorate, an energy source used by some terrestrial microbes.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

By isolating five bacterial strains of endophytes found inside S. halepense rhizomes (subterranean stems used for storage and vegetative reproduction) and growing them in the lab in different mixtures of substrates, the authors determined that these microbes were able to fix and mobilize nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

Hawkes also points out a major benefit of research on microbiome treatments: They may one day help move growers toward more sustainable, low - input agriculture by using plant - microbe interactions as opposed to chemical additives.

Now researchers may have found a way to combat this waste buildup by using a genetically engineered microbe that resists radioactivity and breaks down chemicals at the sites.

This approach is also being used to reverse engineer even more complex gut environments by integrating other cell types, such as immune cells, neuronal cells, and commensal microbes into the device.

Finally, they used a seafloor - crawling robot, the Benthic Rover, to measure the amount of oxygen being consumed by animals and microbes in the sediment.

One of the main ways that hosts manage their interactions with microbes is by carefully controlling the genes that their cells use.

Their analysis demonstrated that under carefully controlled conditions, a microbe called Clostridium thermocellum is twice as effective as fungal enzymes used by industry today.

The microbes need to increase output of thebaine by a factor of 100,000 for drug companies to be interested in using them to make medicines.

By targeting an enzyme that bacteria use to swap genetic material, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have stopped the microbes» ability to spread, among other advantageous mutations, resistance to antibiotics.

In fact, formate may be used by modern day microbes to generate methane in the subsurface biosphere.

Choi has also developed an origami - inspired microbe - based paper battery, a microbe - based battery that can use human saliva as a power source, a battery that can be printed on paper and battery designs inspired by Japanese ninja throwing stars.

To see if this result could be explained by the microbes inside the leaves, the team used two different methods: the traditional method of placing leaf pieces on agar - coated petri plates to see what fungi grew and directly sequencing the DNA from surface - sterilized leaves.

By using new methods to obtain genome data from microbes that can not be grown in the laboratory, we identified a new archaeal group that is related to the host cell from which eukaryotic cells evolved.

The Human Microbiome Project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, has now used next - generation DNA sequencing technology to study these microbes straight from the source.

The presence of ample hydrogen in the moon's ocean means that microbes — if any exist there — could use it to obtain energy by combining the hydrogen with carbon dioxide dissolved in the water.

The photo was taken from a research vessel that scientists used to studied methane consumption by microbes in the ocean.

Most of the antibiotics used to fight illness today were devised by soil microbes, which employ them as weapons in the competition for resources and survival.

Fouke says his findings could improve models used by oil and gas geologists that predict underground spaces for drilling, because microbe - induced mineral growth may close off these spaces.

The microbe seems to be able to replace phosphorus with arsenic in some of its basic cellular processes — suggesting the possibility of a biochemistry very different from the one we know, which could be used by organisms in past or present extreme environments on Earth, or even on other planets.

A research team led by graduate student researcher Shannon Hagerty and Paul Dijkstra, biological sciences associate research professor, measured two key characteristics of soil microbes that determine their role in the soil carbon cycle: how efficiently they use carbon to grow and how long they live.

Microbes can also generate nitrogen by taking carbon and using it fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.

For one, I think there's a lot to learn from mass spectrometry, which is a method that precisely identifies the molecules in a sample and can provide a broad - scale picture of what chemicals are being used for nutrition or communication by microbes in a community.

With the help of microbes, we could decrease our carbon footprint on the planet, by using renewable resources to make a lot of the fuels and chemicals we currently get from petroleum.

As proposed by Andrew Goldsworthy in 1987, cyanobacteria and later chloroplast - related protists and plants developed after microbes that used a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs green light dominated the oceans, and so the new photosynthetic cyanobacteria were forced to use the left - over light with chlorophyll that reflects green light, which was too complex to change even after purple - reflecting photosynthetic lifeforms were no longer dominant (Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, September 10, 2010 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

Potential for Developing Low - Input Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropical Andes by Making Use of Native Microbial Resources — Luis Andrés Yarzábal, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives