Sentences with phrase «with microscopic organisms»

Dogs infected with Rickettsia rickettsii may have subclinical disease, which means that they show no outward signs of illness even though they are infected with the microscopic organism.

Not exact matches

It turns out the microscopic organisms are correlated with dozens of health conditions — everything from irritable bowel syndrome and acne to mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.

As the baby grows in utero, they are seeded with trillions of microscopic organisms that they receive from mom, dad, and anyone living in the house.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Most are microscopic and unicellular, with a relatively simple cell structure lacking a cell nucleus, and organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.Bacteria are the most abundant of all organisms.

Metals, foams and multicellular organisms are all mosaics of microscopic spaces or domains that jostle with each other, grow or shrink, cave in or bulge out.

A glassy object snapped into focus — a round disk, serrated on the edge, perforated with dimples — the shell of an aquatic microscopic organism called a diatom.

«Plastics make ideal vessels for colonizing microscopic organisms that could trigger disease if they come into contact with corals,» Lamb said.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

Nor, researchers thought, can any other eukaryotes — the group of organisms we belong to along with other animals, plants, fungi, and various microscopic creatures.

Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

To answer this question, the researchers analyzed marine sediment cores collected off Galicia (Spain) and from the Bay of Biscay, containing pollen and foraminifera, microscopic marine organisms with calcareous skeletons.

With rising temperatures, the ranges of many species of phytoplankton — the microscopic, plantlike organisms the grazers feed on — will shift away from the tropics and toward the poles, according to a new study.

«Science shows us the many ways that life is interconnected, especially on the microscopic level, where we see how many organisms depend on close contact with or internalization of other species for food, defense, or reproduction,» said lead author John Burns, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

On one two - page spread in Ocean Sunlight, we illustrate the concept of how quickly phytoplankton reproduces by including a series of circles increasing in size, each with a close - up view of these microscopic organisms.

With such fluctuation, our body finds it hard to keep up the balance of essential chemicals, oils and microscopic organisms that our skin needs to stay comfortable, flexible and soft.

These procedures essentially involve flushing the upper respiratory tract with sterile fluid and retrieving that fluid for microscopic examination, to identify infectious bacterial, viral and / or micoplasmal organisms.

These microscopic organisms partner with the root systems of approximately 95 percent of the plants on Earth, and they sequester carbon in much more meaningful ways than human «carbon offsets» will ever achieve.

But if this microscopic organism evolved from more complex jellyfish down to something with just a few cells, they may call into question the boundary of that definition.