Sentences with phrase «when microbes»

Methane, a principal component of farts, is a natural byproduct of digestion produced when microbes in the animal's gut break down and ferment food.

A bladder infection occurs when microbes (usually bacteria) get into the bladder and proliferate.

According to the researchers, when these microbes grow in the gut, they produce various by - products that are beneficial to the host.

When the microbes die off they release toxins.

Innate immunity occurs during the process of inflammation when microbes breach the external barrier to the body.

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.

«We know that methylphosphonate cleavage occurs when microbes are starved for phosphorus, but we need to figure out what nutrients are connected to this, and how is that connected to the pH of the ocean, and how is it connected to temperature of the ocean,» Drennan says.

Biologists later found that when microbes are not under such antibiotic pressure, they copy their DNA using enzymes known as DNA polymerases that make very few mistakes.

But when microbes were filtered out, travertine mineralization dropped by 2.5-fold.

When the microbes harvested electrons, the particles traveled through the electronic components to power a battery.

Researchers speculate that when microbes mix, humans may take bacterial souvenirs from one another, a potential contributor to how we develop our individual microbiomes.

Invasions occur when microbes enter a new environment.

Gone are the days when microbes were considered mere disease - spreading agents that must be purged at all costs.

NOx gases are produced in oxygen - poor soils when microbes break apart nitrogen compounds in the fertilizer, a process called denitrification.

Resistance develops when microbes are repeatedly exposed to antibiotics so giving them to healthy animals exacerbates the problem.

When the microbes found in the soildigest organic materials, they naturally produce a small current, which can beharnessed with a simple device consisting of two electrodes and a small circuitboard.

When the microbes have done their work at the bio-refinery, Perfect Day's dairy proteins - which have the same organoleptic properties as their animal - based counterparts - are harvested via a mechanical process and can be used in everything from ice cream to fluid milk, protein powders and shakes, yogurt, pizza and any other product containing dairy proteins, said Pandya.

A major step in the process occurs when the microbe oxidises this molecule to 3 - hydroquinate, or DHQ, using the enzyme quinic acid dehydrogenase and an enzyme cofactor known as NAD +, commonly found in nature.

And when the microbe divided in two, it made new copies of the frog genes along with its own.

Not exact matches

As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.

An exception here might be some microbes which, when stressed, engage an error - prone genetic replication pathway which in turn provides more genetic variability and thereby, more opportunity for adaptability).

Water back when was very polluted as people did not know about microbes and such, so they got their drinking water upriver and dumped their wastes downriver.

Soils, if managed appropriately, can capture and store carbon when photosynthetically - derived sugars are feed to soil microbes.

TCA is produced when some amount of chlorine in the environment is metabolized by a microbe.

Probiotics, those microorganisms similar to the microbes found in our gut, are extra important when you're traveling and exposing your body to new environments.

Think of microbes as the good bacteria that lives the gut and acts as a buffer when bad bacteria enters the system.

Without the trigger of gut microbes, a baby's immune system is skewed towards allergies or autoimmune disease — animal studies suggest that there's a specific window of time when this happens and when probiotics can have the greatest impact.

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.

However, bacterial diversity may be detrimental in the infant stage when the immune system is developing and learning to distinguish between microbes that are friends and those that are foes.

When germ - free mice were subsequently introduced to microbes that contribute to fat digestion, they quickly gained the ability to absorb lipids.

«We wanted to know what happened to outdoor microbes when they came in through the hospital window,» Kembel says.

When it was unoccupied, microbes settled out of the air onto the floor, desks, and walls.

Weiss latched onto the idea that microbes from the cloaca might be important after noticing that when she obtained eggs through dissection, they tended to have a lower survival rate than eggs that were laid.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Human babies born via cesarean section miss out on an opportunity to pick up beneficial microbes that other babies get when they take a trip through mom's vagina.

This meant the microbes would glow when they were, say, too hot.

When people entered, they acted like tornadoes, resuspending those settled microbes.

«And what happens to indoor microbes when you open a window?

While the study looked only at the ability of fish to exchange microbes, it suggests that microbiome variation among different people might also be due to the movement of microbes, and that when people come together for a class or a meeting, for example, they may depart with a microbiome that is somewhat different than when they entered, Bohannan said.

Microbes like syringae may also exploit ice nucleation to parachute down in raindrops or snowflakes, ensuring they do not remain stuck at high altitudes when swept up by storms.

The team was able to relate the depth of each sediment layer with the climate at the time when it was laid down by looking at chemical traces left by microbes, which adapt their structure to the climate.

But new evidence suggests weight loss may result when the procedure alters the types of microbes in the gut.

But when researchers cut their mutant microbes off sulfur, the microorganisms» growth was stunted.

When they inserted the DNA into a microbe, it produced new viruses.

When they analyzed microbes found in fecal samples collected from mice and humans at different times of day, they discovered rhythmic fluctuations in the abundance of microbes and their biological activities.

The researchers found that by tuning certain dimensions of the microfluidic lattice, they were able to direct billions of microbes to align and swim in the same direction, much the way electrons circulate in the same direction when they create a magnetic field.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

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.

The clinching evidence came this past year, when biologist Carol Bult and her colleagues at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, deciphered the microbe's complete genetic sequence, consisting of 1.7 million genetic letters in its DNA.

«What happens when permafrost thaws and trapped carbon is available for microbes?»

When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.