Sentences with phrase «when microorganisms»

In fact, when the microorganisms take enough of this greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere, the holes behave like carbon sinks.

When microorganisms in intestinal adjust it into nitric oxide, a fume that benefits blood vessels to expand and lift flow of blood.

Of particular importance is when microorganisms with advanced photosynthetic metabolism first appeared, since molecular phylogenetics suggests that all three domains would have already appeared and significant evolution must have already taken place (Schopf, 2000 and Olson 2006).

It is estimated that the human body alone contains about 100,000 different protein types, and almost all biological tasks — from digestion to immunity — occur when these microorganisms interact with each other.

When microorganisms decompose this biomass, they thereby consume more oxygen than can be supplied by surrounding waters and thus the oxygen concentration decreases.

That is, chlorination increased when the microorganisms had easier access to food.

The origins of sleep might therefore date back to the dawn of life 4 billion years ago, when microorganisms changed their behaviour in response to night and day.

Not exact matches

The WHO defines probiotics as «live microorganisms that when administer in adequate amounts confer a health benefit to the host.»

Professor Lanciotti's recent work revealed that microorganisms died much quicker when placed on corrugated surfaces where they get trapped in the paper fibers and die due to a lack of water and nutrients.

Similarly, when a starter starts there is no assurance that the right microorganisms will be the first ones out of the gate to take over the culture, and that they'll keep control over the starter.

When you use whole grain rye or wheat flour, the flour is covered with a LOT of microorganisms.

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.

How your baby is born will determine what microorganisms get where, when.

Oral thrush can occur when your immune system is weakened by certain medications that reduce the number of good microorganisms that would naturally prevent infection.

Probiotics are defined as live microorganisms that confer a health benefit to the host when administered in adequate amounts (41).

The team's results suggest that it's probably a bit of both — while other microorganisms are likely out - competed by the surviving bacteria, the vultures also receive a steady stream of important nutrients when the bacteria break down the carrion.

They found that the floating beads picked up a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a byproduct given off by algae and other microorganisms as they break down (usually when they're being eaten).

Schulze - Makuch agrees, saying the Viking gas chromatograph lacked sensitivity; it also failed to register life when a version of the device on Earth was fed a sample from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a seemingly barren place that actually hosts some microorganisms.

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

The pyrazine - producing bacterium was discovered by chance when the scientists were looking for microorganisms capable of protecting ant colonies from parasitic fungi.

When the researchers simulated a second effect of climate change in addition to warming, namely drought, the results were even the opposite as expected: The soil animals ate less, and also the microorganisms living in the soil showed a decline in respiration — an indication that they also consumed less food.

Certain microorganisms produced them naturally when fed starch, whose molecules are made up of long strands of sugar units.

Antril is meant to block the action of interleukin - 1, a messenger protein or «cytokine» which triggers immune responses when the body is attacked by microorganisms.

Depth horizons with functional genes indicative of methane - cycling and sulfate - reducing microorganisms are enriched in solid - phase sulfur and total organic carbon, host δ13C - and δ34S - isotopic values with a biological imprint, and show clear signs of microbial activity when incubated in the laboratory.

When boosted by a PCB - oxidizing microorganism, the removal rate reached 47 percent.

Larvae hatching from these eggs might benefit from the presence of the larvae that were there previously: They could process the food more easily when it has been «pre-digested» by microorganisms in the frass of their conspecifics.

Their work has already shown that airborne microorganisms die when exposed to ultraviolet rays and titanium dioxide — a common ingredient in toothpaste and a pigment in paint.

When alien species invade and take over communities, they may not come alone — many plant species are host to a whole suite of microorganisms that not only live in plant cells, but also in the soil surrounding the plants» roots.

When Pfeiffer and his colleagues dug into the salt flats, they discovered organic material left by freshwater plants, snails and microorganisms.

For example, when there is no oxygen (a likely scenario in underground disposal vaults) to help these bacteria «breath» and break down the ISA, these simple single - cell microorganisms are able to switch their metabolism to breath using other chemicals in the water, such as nitrate or iron.

And so now there are something like 4,400 on Earth which is at least as far as we can see completely unique, and there was a period which Dr. Hazen called red earth about a couple of billion, two billion years ago, when life first gets going when there's some, you know, early forms of life and about 2,000 or so minerals arise [there], microorganisms make sheaths of minerals like calcium carbonate that we now see in animals with shells.

Probiotics have been defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization - World Health Organization as «live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit to the host.»

When marine microorganisms break down DMSP, they release a climate - cooling gas called dimethylsulfide (DMS), which also gives the seaside its characteristic smell.

On the seafloor of the shallow coastal regions north of Siberia, microorganisms produce methane when they break down plant remains.

His group's study of Methanosaeta started when they found that digesters converting brewery wastes to methane contained large quantities of the microorganism Geobacter.

The World Health Organisation uses this strong expression when referring to a phenomenon that is rapidly spreading: the increasing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobial medicines, such as antibiotics.

These photosynthetic microorganisms grab CO2 from the atmosphere, and when death beckons, their carbon - rich bodies get buried in the depths.

When the corer emerges, it pulls up a log - shaped sample with all its layers — and, ideally, its microorganisms — intact.

Most of the microorganisms living on and within us are harmless and in fact are very useful when it comes to digesting our food.

When present in certain types of soil pores, the carbon can be protected from microorganisms, oxygen, and other factors that could cause it to be released.

However, when plants decompose, microorganisms release carbon dioxide back into the air.

That astonishing concentration of microorganisms, both living and dead, makes sense when you consider that the microbial colonists inhabiting our gastrointestinal tract outnumber our own cells roughly three to one, on recent estimates.

When used properly, beneficial microorganisms in your compost pile will break down the waste until it becomes an unrecognizable substance that is dark, fluffy and rich in nutrients.

They may also be called implants when they contain microorganisms such as Bravo Yogurt.

Occlusive moisturisers can have side effects too, such as blocking water loss when moisture is too high, thus allowing microorganisms to breed.

And when fermented beverages, such as beer or wine, are filtered, the microorganisms are removed, as well.

Probiotics are «live microorganisms, which when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host1».

In fact, when they are not there in the correct ratios we get sick because they assist with the breakdown and assimilation of nutrients and keep unwanted microorganisms in check.

When someone starts taking a probiotic or a prebiotic supplement (or eats a prebiotic food), the beneficial microorganisms begin to increase in number.

But when native populations all over the world «preserve» foods using cultures, the human beings who eat those foods, later, get the benefit of billions of living, «probiotic» microorganisms that are protective against pathogenic bacteria that could make them ill.