Sentences with phrase «yeast organisms in»

So even in a dog's ear that looks 100 % completely clear, there are still a few of these yeast organisms in the ear.

Your veterinarian will apply some sticky tape to his skin, and gently peel it off, picking up some yeast organisms in the process.

Diagnosis of blastomycosis involves finding the yeast organism in samples from draining skin lesions or a lymph node.

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I think the professor needs to consider the role of sulpher in the life span of the yeast organism and the bacteria found naturally in these starters.

Yeast is a living organism and is in the air around us.

Nutritional yeast is NOT a genetically modified organism (GMO), unlike some yeast that are used in baking and beer and wine production.

It was not until the invention of the microscope, followed by the pioneering scientific work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1860's, that yeast was identified as a living organism and the agent responsible for alcoholic fermentation and dough leavening.

With the newfound knowledge that yeast was a living organism and the ability to isolate yeast strains in pure culture form, the stage was set for commercial production of baker's that began around the turn of the 20th century.

Yeast is by far the most common type of organism found in a diaper rash.

These little organisms called yeast thrive in warm, moist environments.

Enzymes need energy supplies, too, and some of them require the assistance of additional molecules that may abound in the organism they come from, but not necessarily in a yeast cell.

Protein misfolding and aggregation had been identified as a major factor in mad cow disease, and research using yeasts as model organisms played a large role in those findings.

Data published by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium indicate that somewhere between 113 and 223 genes present in bacteria and in the human genome are absent in well - studied organisms — such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans — that lie in between those two evolutionary extremes.

New methods will have to be developed for coaxing cells to swap in tailored DNA for each type of organism, but Church and his colleagues say that progress has already been made in yeast and mammalian cells.

Finally, the authors addressed two major challenges for any study that generates large data - sets of individual genes and proteins in model organisms like yeast: How to assemble the data into coherent maps?

Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

So what we might like as the effect in a beer or wine is a waste product from the organisms that are excreting this, and those yeast took in Dave as a [n] atom of carbon in a maltose sugar molecule that the brewmeister made — it's part of the beer - making process — and I tracked this back in a few paragraphs to being in the grain of the barley plant, in the starch of a barley plant and then coming from the atmosphere as a CO2 molecule that entered the leaf of the barley plant.

Before now, a lot of this epigenetic research had been done in yeast — single cell organisms that also use enzymes to lay chemical tags on histone proteins.

«In organisms like E. coli or yeast, that's probably true,» Zaher said.

Yeasts and bacteria which make cheese and wine have been researched in depth, but little is known about how the flavour of other organisms, including truffles, is created.

Schizophrenia researcher Daniel Weinberger of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda agrees that the paper adds to evidence that epistasis — which has been shown in model organisms such as yeast but difficult to prove in humans — is «robust and ubiquitous.»

The research was done in brewer's yeast, but it can potentially be applied in insects, aquatic organisms and plants using a new gene editing technique known as CRISPR - Cas9.

But while this study has proved that the technique works in a simple organism, it could also be applied to other bacterial species, yeast or even human cells to find useful information about how genes are controlled and how they can be manipulated.

They can also compare E. coli's genetic makeup with that of some of the other microorganisms sequenced so far — bakers» yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium responsible for most cases of intestinal ulcers; and Methanococcus thermoautotrophicum, an organism that thrives in hot springs, for example.

Codon usage bias is found in nearly all fast - growing organisms, including bacteria and yeasts that cause infections in humans.

To be able to target the infection with medications in the future, researchers need to know more about how the organism (technically a yeast), moves from the lungs into the blood stream and through the blood - brain barrier.

A research group from the University of Seville has revealed the role that the protein Rrm3 plays in the repair of breaks that occur during the replication of DNA, by using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental cellular processes, with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having first been discovered in yeast.

This is one of the first times that scientists have found simple, genetically similar organisms that communicate across long distances — yeast and slime mold, in contrast, require direct contact.

The researchers used proteins from baker's yeast — a model organism for the more complex systems found in animals.

Such low - cal treatment has increased life spans in mice, dogs, fruit flies, yeast, worms and other lab organisms.

In yeast, extra servings of a protein called Sir2 lengthen lifetime, increasing the number of times the organism can duplicate.

For more than a decade, the husband - and - wife team has been investigating how a large protein complex called SAGA, which helps control gene activity in organisms from yeast to humans, influences developmental processes.

Using a novel method they developed to map chromosome breaks in a model organism, the budding yeast, Wenyi Feng, Ph.D., of Upstate Medical University and her colleagues have discovered new information as to how and where chromosome fragile sites can occur in human DNA.

Niyogi's experience with yeast piqued his interest in other organisms with very fast life cycles.

NASA will host a prelaunch panel discussion at 8 a.m. PDT Sept. 18, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, featuring scientists and researchers who will discuss various science and research studies, including the four Ames - supported payloads to study model organism research using yeast, rodents, fruit flies and plants.

Using genetic models in a variety of organisms — yeast, nematodes, fruit flies, zebrafish — PLab aims to identify candidate treatment compounds for each disease, which can then be refined and taken to the clinic with partner companies.

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

For instance, in simple organisms such as yeast, when genetic material becomes damaged, the affected DNA strands increase their motion, waving about inside the cell like a sail unfurled.

«In model organisms, like yeast or flies, scientists often generate mutations to determine which letters in a DNA sequence are needed for a particular gene to function,» explains CSHL Professor Adam SiepeIn model organisms, like yeast or flies, scientists often generate mutations to determine which letters in a DNA sequence are needed for a particular gene to function,» explains CSHL Professor Adam Siepein a DNA sequence are needed for a particular gene to function,» explains CSHL Professor Adam Siepel.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

Calorie - restriction — consuming 30 - percent fewer calories than normal — is the only scientifically proven way to slow the process of aging in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals.

Researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and NYU Langone Medical Center have developed two types of molecular switch that work in yeast, a commonly used model organism.

Rao's team next tested how these variant forms of NHE9 would affect a relatively simple organism often used in genetic studies: yeast.

In a mammalian host, the organism converts to a budding - yeast form (right panel) that colonizes host macrophages.

Although lacking specialized cell types found in higher organisms and unsusceptible to cancer, Simon said that yeast is often a suitable model for preliminary drug screening before the drug's potential is evaluated in mammalian cells.

Nearly all the experiments so far have been in laboratory organisms ranging from yeast to monkeys.

In particular, the yeast species Yarrowia lipolytica has strong potential as a biofuel - producing organism because it accumulates large amounts of lipids, but little is known about the key biological processes involved.

Her group tweaks specific genes in baker's yeast (the same organism used to make bread and wine), and observes how chromosome ends respond.

This change, which appears to improve yeast's chances for survival in the face of hostile environmental conditions, is an epigenetic phenomenon — a heritable alteration brought about without any change to the organism's underlying genome.