Sentences with phrase «with microbial life»

Their trampling and manure resulted in nutrient - rich soils teeming with microbial life.

But a lake 800 meters below the West Antarctic ice sheet is brimming with microbial life.

It's dark, it's cold, it's largely cut off from the outside world, but the lake water under a half - mile of ice in Antarctica is teeming with microbial life.

For some reason, a bloody hunk of cow meat is more appetizing to most people than a shivering plate teeming with microbial life.

The possibility that our planet was seeded with microbial life from Mars (or even, per Hoyle, from a comet) means that we can not be certain that space microbes would be incompatible with our biology.

Not exact matches

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Food protection covers a combination of physical, chemical and biological hurdles to control both spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms and extend shelf life while complying with microbial safety policies.

This practice is thought to make the food «safer» by extending its shelf life, and reducing the incidence of microbial and insect manifestations, along with their respective diseases.

We looked at their DNA instead, which we filtered out of the water, to determine where these things fit in with other sorts of microbial life.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

Since the reaction produces nitrous oxide with a specific isotopic signature, Joye says: «This could be an easy way to «sniff» around the surface of Mars looking for pockets of subsurface brine that might be hotspots for extreme microbial life.»

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

Some symbiotic bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can trick plants into reacting to a microbial attack rather than that of a chewing herbivore, according to a team of Penn State researchers who found that the beetles with bacteria were healthier and grew better.

According to the researchers, the proposed technique could be possible to perform with instrumentation already planned for the NASA 2020 rover mission to explore areas of Mars where the ancient environment could have fostered microbial life.

Because such chemistry provides energy for microbial life on Earth, the discovery makes Enceladus the top candidate for hosting life elsewhere in the solar system — besting even Jupiter's Europa, another icy moon with an ocean.

If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.»

A recent survey of microbial life found that the oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times more unique species than scientists expected.

In a perspective piece published November 6 in the journal Science, Eddy Rubin, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, along with Microbial Program Head Tanja Woyke, discusses why the time is right to apply genomic technologies to discover new life on Earth.

Devoid of light but likely bursting with supersaturated oxygen and other gases, Vostok has long been speculated to be a potential habitat for unique ecosystems of extremophilic microbial life (and who knows what else).

The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the Martian environment, combined with findings from the 1976 Viking mission, have led to the conclusion that existing life on Mars is a possibility that must be considered, as presented in an article in Astrobiology.

You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,» she says, «and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.»

While most Amazonian earth is notoriously nutrient poor, yellowish, sterile, and unscented, there are extensive patches of soil that are mysteriously dark, moist, fragrant, and filled with insects, microbial life, and organic matter.

In this role, she works with many collaborators to facilitate implementing superresolution microscopy into their research programs as well as developing novel techniques for microbial live cell imaging.

Using a portable, miniature DNA sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore MiniON), the researchers show for the first time that not only can the tool be used for examining environmental samples in extreme and remote settings, but that it can be combined with other methodology to detect active microbial life in the field.

Fresh tap water is teeming with harmless microbial life, and water that sits for a few days inside pipes can contain millions of bacteria.

These flaps, which range from thumbnail - to finger - sized, are lined with live microbial cells that shrink and expand in response to changes in humidity.

Or the transformation may take some time and be more gentle, with an increasingly hot and cloudy atmosphere able to shelter microbial life for some time.

«The microbial world is one of the last frontiers of exploration on our planet, and we're using microscopes together with genomics to learn as much as possible about this invisible life.»

An unconventional solution is now presented by Singaporean and Chinese scientists: as reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they coated live, electroactive bacteria with a conducting polymer and obtained a high - performance anode for microbial fuel cells.

If we can collect a sample, we can determine whether microbial life exists in order to understand how it evolved and how it continues in this cold environment with no sunlight or energy.»

In an email interview with Newsweek, lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that while he can not speculate on the presence of alien life on Enceladus, their timescale for hydrothermal activity does bolster the case that microbial life could emerge.

Led by the American Society of Microbiology, in partnership with the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society, the Kavli Challenge will support the development of next generation scientific tools to investigate life on a microbial scale.

Results: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have for the first time integrated microscopy methods with controlled cultivation to monitor microbial physiology in live bacterial biofilms.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

With its three cameras, four spectrometers, two radiation detectors, and weather monitoring station, MSL's primary goal is to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support microbial life.

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

Consistent with the «hygiene hypothesis,» which holds that increased microbial exposure in the first years of life is protective for asthma, the team's findings also indicate that the presence of house dust components that stimulate the innate immune system decreases asthma risk.

The animation ends with a celebration of MAVEN, which will help in understanding Mars» climate history and uncovering when and how long Mars may have had an environment more favorable to microbial life than found today.

While no one can say with certainty what sort of life might be turned up by these experiments, the usual assumption is that it will be microbial, as single - celled life is adaptable to a wide range of environments and requires less energy.

Antje Boetius and her team are renowned for their contributions to the diversity and function of life associated with seafloor processes, including pelagobenthic coupling, gas seepage and fluid flow, and the structure, function and dynamics of microbial communities of the ocean floor.

While the jury's out on whether these supplements have any effect on the gut's bacterial environment, it is clear that not having a thriving microbial community in one's intestines can be dangerous, with consequences ranging from a day or two of diarrhea to life - threatening infection with a nasty bug called Clostridium difficile, which can gain a foothold in patients treated with antibiotics.

You will also learn how to optimize your bile flow and improve the health of your liver and gallbladder so you can reduce your microbial load, improve your digestion and nutrient absorption and live life with more energy and vitality.

There are only 10 - 15 beneficial microbial strains in milk kefir made with powder compared with kefir made with live grains, not to mention it is more expensive too!

Again quoting from the free encyclopedia, «Probiotics are live microorganisms that may confer a health benefit on the host... «live microbial feed supplement which beneficially affects the host animal by improving its intestinal microbial balance»... commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures.»

Filled with some two dozen wire - woven openwork sculptures by Ruth Asawa, the big second - floor gallery at David Zwirner's West 20th Street space in Chelsea looks like a basketry forest, or a subaqueous garden, or a cloud of microbial life.