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The oil that wasn't dissolved by chemical dispersants or microbes fell to the bottom of the ocean, out of sight to the public.

Critics assert that this flow of genes helps to undermine any concept of species in microbes.

As these once-obese humans lost weight over the course of a year, their mix of gut microbes changed to reflect their new, svelte status.

Collectivist societies tend to pop up in parts of the world, especially around the equator, with plenty of disease-causing microbes.

It is no longer an either-or question of whether the first microbes arose on Earth or arrived from space.

But Mark Stoneking wasn't all that interested in human health when he decided to chase down the microbes in spit.

He looked at it closely, and saw that microbes around the mould had been killed.

Specifically, he said, the structures look like bacterial biofilm, a slimy substance that the microbes often form.

She believes the Mars sample could be just as vulnerable to Earthly microbes as people might be to any Martian germs.

This process is called chemosynthesis, and a lot of different microbes can do it, microbes living in rocks and soils all over the world.

Underlying their work, however, was no clear concept of what it meant for microbes to belong to a species.

This turned out to be because a second set of microbes, within the whey itself, was absorbing them.

But it's not easy to produce isobutanol with the help of microbes like the ones that ferment those sugars into ethanol.

Baumgartner. And, she said, baths don't splash microbes into the air as much as showers, which blast them into easily inhaled aerosol form.

Head to the science lab and take a seat at the microscope, through which you'll see these common microbes as you never saw them in class!

She and her colleagues then began to subject the microbes to sophisticated analyses to see if arsenic had been utilized by the bacteria.

Augustine, Fla. , company sells ties treated with a stain-resistant coating that the company says thwarts microbes.

Trying to use all of the energy produced by bacterial metabolism wouldn't leave enough for the microbes to grow, reproduce, and thrive.

Some microbes like nothing better than to be nestled in a toxic sludge of heavy metals like zinc, arsenic and cadmium.

It may involve a rather mundane announcement by NASA of the discovery of primitive extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes.

Cleaning showerheads with bleach will not do since the microbes will simply return with a fresh flow of water.

Part of the reason was that the normal mice had microbes that made more useful sugar available.

it allowed for a free flow of bacteria, germs and microbes that almost wiped out the American peoples, ' he explained.

They contend that microbes, like rotifers, are not just a blur of variation but clusters adapted to particular ecological niches.

The rate of discovery of new microbes and of new associations of microbes with health and disease is accelerating.

The scientists extracted proteins from pumpkin rinds to see if the proteins inhibit the growth of microbes, including Candida albicans C.

The answer is probably not what you want to hear: Microbes can live on household surfaces for hundreds of years.

A baby's first peas are a life-changing event, at least as far as the microbes in its gut are concerned.

However, this is only a second line of defense that selectively recognizes microbes attacking for a second time.

But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest.

The secret lies in a thin layer of microbes, known as a biofilm, that researchers found enveloping gold grains in a Queensland mine.

The microbes seem to have incorporated arsenic into their DNA.

Thanks advantageous to these properties, enzymes which cannot be produced from animals and plants can be obtained from microbes.

Life finds a way. It seems wherever we look, microbes are there, whether high in the sky or more than a kilometer deep underground.

When researchers removed the phosphorus and replaced it with arsenic the microbes continued to grow.

The microbes, they suggest, are surviving the dark, oxygen-free waters by drawing energy from sulfur and iron.

Dispersants used to fight the oil are also food for the microbes, speeding up the oxygen depletion.

That methane would be an unexpected bounty for methane-munching marine microbes that consume dissolved oxygen and produce carbon dioxide.

So every time we grab a glass of juice or type out an email, we leave our fingerprints, and a shmear of our own resident microbes.

Through a primary analysis of microbes in pickle radish of Xiaoshan, we certified that the main microbes were Bacillus cereus.

For several months, the company analyzed the genomes of microbes on surfaces, like desks and computers and handles on toilets.

Complementary techniques used in combination with AFM for study of microbes are also discussed.

On top of that, he published a cool paper showing that soil microbes - "ultra-bugs" - can use antibiotic drugs as their sole source of food.

The said method can kill microbes on the surface of host completely while reducing the damage to endophyte in the host at most.

The problem is particularly worrisome along the coast because the microbes pollute shellfish beds and areas used for recreation.

Humans have intimate symbiotic relationships with a diverse range of gut microbes (a microbiota) residing in their intestines.

others had various immune defects, were germ-free, carried human gut microbes, or had a combination of those characteristics.

In terms of numbers and range of distribution, microbes are the dominant organisms on earth.

This approach could be even more powerful if the cheating microbes were engineered to be susceptible to antibiotics.

If confirmed in people, the findings may inspire the creation of new drugs to help skin defend itself against microbes.

Consumer products containing microbial product must be traced back to initial growth media of the microbes.

Results indicates these microbes can be potentially used in microbial enhancement of oil recovery(MEOR).

Researchers studying behavior and gene activity in mice have found that these microbes appear to help shape brain development.

In these extremes, the investigators were only expecting to see viruses, bacteria and other microbes.

The human intestine is inhabited by numerous microbes, which form a complex microbial community that deeply affects human physiology.

This means that their immune system was able to detect other microbes and stimulate the production of antibodies.

Experimental results show that the killing rate of microbes clearly goes up as the dose of mutation agent or action time increases.

An astronaut would go and get a freeze-dried package of seed microbes, add a little moisture, and stick it in the sensor.

The number of new antibiotic drugs has dwindled. Meanwhile, microbes continue to evolve, developing resistance to existing drugs.

Several have begun to use it to characterize key genes for various microbes in different organisms and tissues.

The U. C. Davis method simply spurs the microbes to excrete extra calcium carbonate, bonding the sand together tightly like cement.

Earp-Thomas with the help of a Rockefeller Foundation grant and a team of researchers was able to study soil microbes all over the world.

Or how do fridge microbes of an urban singleton stack up with those of a suburban family?

Some of those carbon products transfer from the roots to symbiotic fungi and soil microbes, which store the carbon in the soil as humus.

Scientists are experimenting with photosynthetic microbes such as algae and cyanobacteria (sometimes referred to as blue-green algae).

They gave protected mice one of two antibiotic drugs in low doses that altered the abundance of various microbes but didn't kill the bugs.

Patenting the organism isn't without its critics, however, who argue the move will stifle future science relying on an artificial microbes.

Now some researchers think some of the "missing" genes may be found in the teeming populations of microbes we host.

The species and quantities of prokaryotic microbes of the rice wine fermentation process were analyzed by the traditional culture method.

To let more people understand microbes and its role, the paper will be four areas on the field.

The appearance of microbes in all these paintings becomes a decorative interference in a traditional pictorial vocabulary.

Nearly 20 years ago scientists took samples of that rust, and found that it harbors a mix of iron-munching microbes.

Some of these microbes may play important roles in metabolic processes.

These microbes release chemicals that have a direct effect on metabolism, including being able to switch enzyme activity on or off.

This appreciation has dawned gradually, as part of a growing recognition of the key role microbes play in the world.

In autocatalytic digestion, microbes break down the feed, and in the process produces more microbes along with a digestion product P.

It's the saltiest body of water on Earth, but a few microbes thrive there, in water eight times saltier than the ocean.

Carbonate is what corals, the shells of shellfish and the outer layers of many photosynthesising plankton and other microbes are made of.

Humans use the versatility of microbes to make improvements in industrial production, agriculture, medicine, and environmental protection.

How long can unpleasant microbes live on glossy magazine covers or, for that matter, the pages of a newspaper?

Six hundred feet (183 metres) below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.

Many microbes can manufacture more than one kind of extracellular polymers whose compositions are variational during their growing cycle.

say the raw product is magical, as it contains beneficial microbes that help fight several sicknesses and conditions.

During stacking fermentation process, fermented grains could collect and accumulate airborne microbes and microbes on producing apparatus.

Microbes in the gut of insects are known to break down cellulose, but little is known about how, or whether, insects degrade lignin.

Fuel- producing microbes long seemed more like a sci - fi pipe dream than a viable solution to the fossil-fuel crisis .

Seems the motorway makes it easier for resistant microbes to migrate from person to person, and to immigrate in from out-of-town.

In contrast to the terrestrial microorganisms, these microbes possess some different mechanism properties or genetic properties.

Scientists have discovered microbes that are resilient to levels of heat, cold, salt, acidity, and radiation that would kill humans.

It was found that morphology and surface ultrastructure of microbes were significantly affected by microgravity.

To live and grow, a variety of microbes use nitrogen in different ways, metabolically transforming it into diverse chemical compounds.

In the top 200 metres or so of the sea, some dead or faecal matter is turned back into CO2 by microbes and may then re-enter the atmosphere.

Furthermore if eateries do not have access to clean water for washing, microbes that cause food poisoning may contaminate food.

Microbes are even more responsive; temperature and rainfall patterns significantly affect the viability of viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

Further, microbes have adaptability, and marked mutant species can be induced artificially.

In a process called denitrification, the microbes convert nitrates in the water into nitrogen gas, which is released into the atmosphere.

For millions of years, a natural partnership between plants and soil microbes has helped regulate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

It teems with microbes that researchers think could provide clues to what life might look like on Mars.

This research shows that the relationship between humans and microbes can be beneficial for both.

As a survival mechanism, other microbes have developed mechanisms for resisting the toxic effect of antimicrobials.

Microbes in permafrost have successfully adapted to cryogenic stress in morphologic, physiological and biochemical levels.

Microbes are constantly mutating , and some of those mutations happen to confer immunity to one drug or another.

The Research of interaction between minerals and microbes can provide theory evidence to weathering mechanism and biomineralization.

And a wide range of cooking and cleaning items now employ nanosize silver particles to kill microbes.

For him, this evidence is enough to justify calling a group of microbes a species.

Other proposed signs of life include gases produced by biological processes, or infrared light reflected by radiation-tolerant microbes.

The pathogenic microbes in water have threaten people's health and needed to be exactly detected.

Most are microbes of bacteria, though there are also worms burrowing into the sea bed and ocean insects less than 1mm long.

There have been reported observation of localized methane pockets on Mars that could come from subsurface microbes.

The microbes generate electricity as they eat, and the electrodes capture it to power the light.

One question is whether the antibiotics harm soil microbes, or aquatic life if enough leaches into streams, Halden says.

Such pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) comprise molecular structures that are found in microbes but not in host tissues.

The energy exchange between natural semiconductor minerals and chemoautotroph microbes was investigated in details in this paper.

For this reason, the most commonly discussed panspermia scenario involves the transport of microbes or their precursors from Mars to Earth.

More studies of modern microbes, their biogeochemical interactions, and their inorganic mimics are needed to resolve this issue.

Long lived oceans may have teemed with microbes at a time when the life is thought to have also been starting on Earth.

They observed that microbes in the fecal material took up residence in a susceptible mouse's gut for about a month.

Microbes are roots of life's family tree. An understanding of their genomes will help us understand how more complex genomes developed.

TH17 cells can cause autoimmune disease, and gut microbes can induce the production of these cells in the intestine.

AC filtration does not remove microbes, sodium, nitrates, fluoride, and hardness.

Something with good optical transparency is critical, of course, so that if the microbes light up, the chip can perceive that.

Taking the rescue of doomed microbes further, Hecht's team made a strain of E. coli missing all four genes from the previous experiments.

can escape antibiotics. But add sugar to the treatment and the microbes rev up, only to be taken down. Karen Hopkin reports.

These microbes are now being spread round the country in river water and in sewage sludge used on farms.

In 2007, the U. S. National Institutes of Health set up a $115 million, 5-year program to look in-depth at microbes found on or in people.

The marine microbe happened to transfer some of its enzyme genes to gut microbes.

The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that's considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane-producing microbes.

And when Mayr came up with his biological species concept, it seemed to exclude many microbes.

Ionescu further pointed out that all known hard-core halophiles, or salt-loving microbes, die if you put them in freshwater, and vice versa.

By selectively manipulating genes, the researchers can program the microbes to synthesize many different fuels and chemicals.

While some microbes can make their own food out of chemicals in the ocean, complex life like the amphipod can't, Kim said.

The article shows that beneficial microbes is separated from traditional produce of pu'er tea , applying to solid fermentation produce .

It was also found that CaCO3 particles were adsorbed to the surfaces firstly, then microbes were adsorbed.

In an ecospheric world, shrimp eat algae, algae live on the light, microbes survive on the "wastes" of both.

Previous research has shown that the droplets can contain microbes that live inside the warm, wet interior of shower nozzles.

The mostly applied amendments include clay minerals, phosphates, organic composts, anti microbes.

Every week seems to bring a new theory about why people are getting fatter. The latest is that intestinal microbes are partly to blame.

In 1996, a team of NASA scientists announced that they had found fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite that had landed in Antarctica.

In addition, oak barrels of soluble materials and its microbes, to the old familiar and produce brandy bouquet has great influence.

Also, this is where microbes ferment nutrients that have so far escaped digestion and absorption.

The flicking tails of the shrimp stir up the water, which stirs the microbes so that each bug has a chance to catch the sunlight.

Female agents were given purse mirrors with microbes hidden inside them, so they might infect top Allied occupiers with deadly bacteria.

The microbes that cause diarrheal disease spread through contaminated food and water, or through poor hygiene and sanitation.

One example Rossmann cites is as a potential new weapon to fight dangerous microbes.

Previously, scientists have applied chemical fertilisers to the soil to encourage microbes to degrade the oil.

Other microbes included Proteus, Enterobacter, and Micrococcus species.

As part of the digestive process, the microbes break down nutrients to extract calories that can be stored as fat.

Every year, millions of people worldwide get sick or die as a result of eating food contaminated with poisonous microbes.

Objective: To develop a high-throughput diagnostic method with suspension array technique for detecting pathogenic microbes.

Freeloading microbes could help their hosts by undermining cooperation between pathogens.

Microbes that penetrate the Body's natural Barriers encounter substances (such as interferon) that inhibit their growth or reproduction.

The main microbes of sputum culture were Candida albicans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii.

During pregnancy, gut microbes may release chemicals that affect fetal brain development, the researchers say.

Coat-imposed dormancy may be ended by removal of external layers by microbes or even passage through an animal's gut.

Microbes are the oldest form of life on Earth.

This evidence supported the idea that it was microbes that made the methane disappear, Kessler said.

It's like biology: In an ecosystem where microbes are promiscuously swapping genes and traits, evolution speeds up.

To microbes, fluids appear thick and still, and viscosity is the main force small organisms must reckon with.

The Earth's climate may be dependent upon microbes that eat rock beneath the sea floor.

The isolated frequencies of the microbes were different on the different trees in the different regions.

When light photons hit the grid a positive charge is created which splits water molecules, producing a substance deadly to microbes.

Active ingredients: Yeast, lactic acid bacteria, a variety of bacilli and other useful microbes and enzymes, microbial nutrition.

Gordon now wants to find out exactly how the ingested microbes influence the entrenched ones.

Mercury methylation by microbes plays a key role in mercury biogeochemical cycle, and closely related with public health.

The real threat for people may not be a single disease, but armies of emergent microbes raising havoc among a host of creatures.

Microbes proliferate rapidly. mutate frequently, and adapt with relative ease to new environments and hosts.

Dendritic cells guard the sites of pathogen entry to the host and are uniquely suited to detect and capture invading microbes.

Students of this program study microbes that cause human disease and sickness.

NEWS: Are aliens already among us? One scientist thinks cosmic microbes may have already colonized our planet.

Some of the crop may be eaten up by insects, rodents, and microbes.

The researchers guess that pandas rely entirely on communities of gut microbes for extracting nutrients from bamboo.

NH 4N showed piston shape transportation in soil, and its attenuation had no obvious relation to microbes growth in short term.

But the microbes that cause those diseases don't attach themselves to the mosquitoes and then immediately latch onto their next victim.

If you receive municipal water, then you're getting about 10 million of these and other microbes per liter of tap water, says Pace.

Harmful fungi, nematodes and bacteria are weak competitors against beneficial soil microbes.

Our results suggest that SRAP is an efficient method for analyzing the genetic diversity in rhizosphere soil microbes.

It's true, Donne! Some of the microbes in our gut are there for a good reason.

Several molecules in human milk besides secretory IgA prevent microbes from attaching to mucosal surfaces.

Almost any activity that disrupts a natural environment can enhance the mobility of disease causing microbes .

These showers could reach any microbes inside the rock unless it was very big, about two meters or more in diameter.

Strychnine is used to kill rodents and pyrrolizidine alkaloids have significant activity against microbes.

However, a barrage of criticism from other scientists has cast doubt on whether these microbes actually live off arsenic.

That news, published Wednesday in Nature, is sure to excite life-hunters hoping to find extraterrestrial microbes within our solar system.

Many compounds with anti-HIV-1 activity have been screened out from natural products in animals, plants, marines and microbes.

Once a donation has been tested for microbes and found to be pure, a small sample is analyzed by a machine called a MilkoScan FT 120.

it has the capacity of fixing microbes and adjusting the equilibrium of free amine and ammonia ions.

The bacterium, Bacteroides plebeius, lives in the human gut, along with trillions of other microbes.

Pharmaceutical production is already under way in major laboratories using microbes.

The sequences, stored in the Ribosomal Database Project, were compared to classify the microbes by biologic taxa.

Some researchers have argued that perhaps microbes fit the biological species concept, but in their own peculiar way.

The process by which hydrogen sulfide becomes sulfur is complex, and most often occurs when microbes, like bacteria, are present.

Not all microbes are radiation-tolerant, and nonbiological processes can sometimes produce gases typically associated with life.

The continued discovery of primitive microbes, along with comparative genomics, should help resolve life's deep past.

Back in the lab, they cultured microbes from that mud.

Microbes can take toxic substances in contaminated soil and convert them into harmless byproducts.

Those microbes eat the same food you do, and when you brush, food particles and bacteria stick to your toothbrush.

From the moment we are born, we all come into continuous contact with microbes that can cause disease.

These comets could bring the microbes to other celestial bodies where life could be created.

The researchers showed that gallium killed microbes, and prevented the formation of biofilms.

However, this process is supplemented by oxygen released by carbon dioxide-munching microbes.

Pasteurization makes food safe by heating microbes to death. But the high temperatures can destroy some nutrients too.

Prevent microbes breeding, dust proofing and waterproofing.

Similarly, microbes moving nitrogen around with their biochemical reactions usually pick lighter or heavier isotopes of nitrogen.

Immunity Ability to resist attack or overcome infection by invading microbes or larger parasites.

The results showed that different temperature and different thermal stimulus would result in great difference in microbes culture in Daqu.

More food makers are scrambling to offer products with special live microbes that boast health benefits.

From microchips to microbes, poor old Europe seems to trail in America's and Asia's wake.

Microbes evolve resistance quickly, whether they cause human disease or apple disease.

Gut microbes aid in food digestion and synthesize vitamins, using enzymes our own cells cannot make.

Some scientists have even speculated that Titan could already be home to methane-dwelling microbes.

At one end of the oval, the mouth sucked up microbes like a vacuum cleaner.

Photosynthetic microbes also store plenty of fat, which forms the basis for fuel.

If you increase the quantity of food available for animal organisms or for microbes, then more of them will survive.

Considered harmful to fetuses, perchlorate provides fuel for some microbes.

Most of our interactions with microbes are beneficial and are healthy.

BASF is now offering a plastic that has the property of killing microbes.

Microbes like P. aeruginosa were once thought of as disorganised renegades, each cell working alone.

Microbes are finely tuned to inhabit specific chemical or physical niches where they've got an advantage.

The very fact that you have so many microbes of so many different kinds is what keeps you healthy most of the time.

The microbes grow in the interface between the oil and the rock, helping to release the oil.

Such diseases are caused by a variety of microbes including bacteria, parasites, fungi and viruses.

The plants, microbes and wildlife that inhabit wetlands filter out the dirt in the water.

First, he championed changes in hospital practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes.

The researchers believe they could even contain 'stromatolites', as at Pilbara, which are formed by ancient microbes.

Robbed of its microbes, the wart gradually vanishes.

A large number of microbes can mediate the formation of carbonate spherulite.

"Thurston Lamphead, my lawyer, got into it with all those carping microbes from Stratford-Upon-Avon, " he replied.

These patches insulate the soil and may provide small amounts of moisture for microbes below.

Nitrogen's journey through the oceans is largely mediated by microbes .

They modified about a dozen genes in E. coli to reverse this beta-oxidation pathway so that the microbes build fatty acids.

In the past, when food was scarce, those who harboured such microbes would have been blessed.

The scientists could hardly wait to see if A-beta, like LL-37, killed microbes.

Microbes can decompose dung and urine into fertilizer and produce carbon dioxide and water.

In conclution, rapeseed meal can obviously improve its feeding quality after solid-state fermentation by microbes.

That's because animals, plants and even microbes can act as a buffer between people and pathogens.

First, the microbes quietly multiply and then they suddenly switch their behaviour.

Engineers pump vast amounts of specialized microbes into the reservoir, together with nutrients and, in some cases, oxygen.

Microbes don't fare too well on absorbent surfaces, and might survive only minutes on newspaper.

Scientists are wondering how to improve health by meddling with your microbes.

Microbes are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

At the same time, to a certain extent, to avoid flower color, the deformation and the microbes, the descent of the bacteria.

Enzymes that help vent microbes live off hydrogen enable Helicobacter and Campylobacter to do the same in the digestive system.

Man is a gregarious animal, and apparently the mischievous microbes he exhales fight and neutralise each other.

The algae die and rain down into deep waters, where their remains are like fertilizer for microbes.

Pectinase is most widely distributed. It exists in animals, plants and microbes.

Accordingly, a rapid detection method for microbes in beer is required urgently.

but at last, when the Rev. Mr. Burgess rose and laid his hand on the sack, he could hear his microbes gnaw , the place was so still.

Since the microbes need to live in water, the biodegradation occurs at the oil-water contact(OWC).

Even with antibiotics, washing off microbes remains an excellent idea.

A new microbiology textbook from ASM Press pays more than just lip service to microbes in the mouth.