Sentences with phrase «using microbial»

The partners have built a urinal that produces electricity from pee using a microbial fuel cell.

One innovation that could play a big part in wastewater reclamation (and its energy footprint) is using microbial fuel cells in the process, in order to at least partially power wastewater treatment facilities sustainably.

During the Winter Workspace, Tubbs will be using the microbial leather to cast river rocks found at the Wave Hill site while laminating microplastic between the layers.

Rhizoremediation of Environmental Contaminants Using Microbial Communities — Ashish A. Prabhu, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Using a microbial community veers from the approach typically taken of using isolated organisms to obtain enzymes.

Assessing the origin of bacteria in tap water and distribution system in an unchlorinated drinking water system by SourceTracker using microbial community fingerprints — Gang Liu — Water Research

The discovery demonstrates the value of using microbial systems to investigate ecological and evolutionary questions, and has strong implications for our understanding and even treatment of infectious diseases.

Several methods can be employed to harvest it — for example, engineers can extract methane through anaerobic (oxygen - free) digestion, or produce electricity using microbial fuel cells.

In the future, winemakers might use microbial analyses to improve their products by identifying bacteria and fungi associated with desirable metabolites, or by finding troublesome taxa before they cause spoilage or other problems during fermentation

Thanks to ever - evolving gene - sequencing technology, scientists can now use microbial RNA to identify organisms.

How to use microbial community data from soils, dust, or objects for forensic or archaeologic use.

He used Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) and found what design and conditions work best for generating electricity.

The five year grant will support the development of Bretschger's BioElectrochemical Sanitation Technology (BEST), which uses microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to clean wastewater and improve sanitation and water accessibility in developing world applications.

Use microbial culture and antimicrobial susceptibility results to aid in the selection of antimicrobials when clinically relevant.

Not exact matches

And herein lies a very broad and «mushy middle,» says McKenna, with the effect, in many cases, being the same: «It's still using smaller - than - treatment doses, or sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics,» which creates a literal breeding ground for resistant microbial strains.

This distinctive trait is rendered possible by the combined action of cheese maturation and enzymes naturally found in milk and through the use of processing aids such as «scotta innesto» (starter culture with a high microbial biodiversity) and calf rennet paste.

Conclusion University of Bologna's new study proved that using corrugated instead of plastic packaging for fruit can significantly reduce potential contamination via microbial transfer.

ASTM International F2638 - 07 Standard Test Method for Using Aerosol Filtration for measuring the Performance of Porous Packaging Materials as a Surrogate Microbial Barrier

I use coconut oil to aid in weight loss, make homemade toothpaste and Deoderant - btw the anti microbial properties of coconut oil make it an outstanding ingredient in homemade all natural Deoderant!!!

The proper antimicrobial will be used in conjunction with these other hurdles to manage and control microbial growth.

With over 25 years of experience in microbial fermentation and an international manufacturing network dedicated to high - quality and proprietary products Gnosis is a leading manufacturer and seller of active and functional ingredients and natural finished products used in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and veterinary industries.

The food industry has become increasingly focused on developing different «what if» scenarios when reformulating or developing new food and drink products to predict the levels of microbial growth using methods such as challenge testing.

In chicken processing plants, some interventions might include: the use of food - grade additives that kill or reduce the growth of potential microbial hazards; approved rinses to kill any surviving bacteria; and metal detectors to make sure that no foreign object makes its way into a product.

Using apple pomace as a model food source, the team developed a process for stabilising apple pomace to prevent its physical, chemical and microbial degradation.

Meat, fish and cheese product producers use these additives to hinder microbial growth as well as to keep meat red and enhance its flavour.

Low oxygen conditions under vacuum packaging can minimize oxidative deterioration of meat and inhibit aerobic microbial growth.Also, in order to extend meat display life using nitriteembedded film (NEF) are used.

Pillows are single use and thus reduce the chances of microbial contamination of the Veggie hardware and produce.

The moisturiser itself uses manuka honey to nourish the skin, as well as to take advantage of its microbial properties so as to protect against inflammation or blemishes.

According to the Organic Farming Research Foundation, «Organic standards set strict guidelines on manure use in organic farming: either it must be first composted, or it must be applied at least 90 days before harvest, which allows ample time for microbial breakdown of pathogens.»

Tri-Lution ® is a direct - fed microbial designed using competitive exclusion technology to help animals through stressful times.

Tri-Lution ® is a direct - fed microbial designed using competitive exclusion technology to help animals through stressful times, such as scours, mastitis or bacterial challenges.

Salt is used to help extend shelf life of edible products, process meat, control microbial growth and so much more.

One 2013 study found significant microbial contamination in breast milks samples purchased online, concluding that mothers should avoid use of donated or sold breastmilk and suggesting further use of lactation services as the solution to increasing breastfeeding rates.

This will help his guts to get used to different strains of intestinal bacteria and create its microbial ecology.

However, interventions like use of synthetic oxytocin, antibiotics, C - section and formula feeding could be interfering with, or bypassing completely, the microbial transfer from the mother to baby.

Using state - of - the - art, high - throughput sequencing technologies, the team also analyzed the gut microbial population structures of mothers and their offspring.

«If we want to predict the future correctly, we'd better use models that accurately describe these microbial processes.»

In addition, surface geophysical techniques are used to map soil electrical properties in 3 - D, which greatly controls soil microbial activities.

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.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

So Silberg and colleagues used the tools of synthetic biology — and a refined experimental setup that Silberg initially drafted with his son's spare Lego bricks — to establish a situation where just one microbial conversation was taking place and where biochar's effects on that conversation could be measured.

«But, herbivores can evade plant defenses by using symbiotic bacteria that deceive the plant into perceiving an herbivore threat as microbial, suppressing the plant's defenses against herbivores.»

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.

Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) has gained acceptance for treating Clostridium difficile infection, a life threatening and difficult to treat dysbiosis that often is caused by heavy use of antibiotics.

A team led by gastroenterologists Sieglinde Angelberger and Walter Reinisch (Medical University Vienna) and microbiologists David Berry and Alexander Loy (University of Vienna) explored how a treatment called «fecal microbiota transplantation» can be used to support microbial recolonization of the gut of patients with chronic intestinal inflammation (ulcerative colitis).

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

The procedure, which has a 90 percent success rate, transplants the fecal microbial ecosystem from a healthy person into a sick one, often using a colonoscope for inserting the material, to restore a healthy equilibrium.

Using metabolic function analyses of identified genes, we compared our human genome with the average content of previously sequenced microbial genomes.

«We used a technique known as high - throughput sequencing to gain an exquisitely detailed view of the relationships between the various strains,» said study co-author Mark Pallen, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Genomics, Warwick Medical School, the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

«Also by studying how the gut microbiota usually recover after cholera, we gain new ideas about how to manage severely disturbed microbial communities, ideas that can be used to protect against diseases that often follow such disturbance, such as infections that commonly follow antibiotic use.»