" Microbes, even fossilized microbes, would be "an astonishing discovery.
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Microbes are perhaps the key drivers of the ocean's biochemical processes, and microbes are infected by viruses.
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You consciously treat proteins and their carrier microbes exactly as people unconsciously treat disease microbes when blasting them willy-nilly with antibiotics: You encourage the microbes to rise to the challenge, adapt, survive.
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He also found that their microbes had changed, as did the metabolites, or small molecules, that the microbes produce.
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Microbes known as methanogens consume hydrogen and carbon dioxide and produce methane; other microbes known as methanotrophs eat methane.
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This might be toxic to humans, but some microbes thrive on it, like Earth's marine microbes thrive on carbon dioxide.
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Not only did our evolution depend on an environment that microbes created, but microbes continue to influence our health in countless ways.
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And finding parallels in the ways living microbes and lifeless chemical reactions produce methane, the microbes may contain clues about their origin too.
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Masks reduce the spread of infectious disease by catching microbes expelled by the wearer and protecting the wearer from microbes in their environment.
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If so, the meteorites could have carried microbes to the moon, and those microbes could have lived in pools of water on the surface.
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Segal's group still doesn't know enough about specific microbes, or even how much of a role the microbes play in the glycemic response itself.
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She added that the microbes they found were pretty consistent across boroughs and stressed that the majority of the microbes they found were harmless.
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To test the hypothesis that the gut microbes in the weight-cycling mice led to their rapid secondary weight gain, the researchers transferred those microbes to mice that had no gut microbes of their own and exposed those mice to a high-fat diet.
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That's the team of people tasked with ensuring that Earth's microbes don't travel to other worlds and that alien microbes don't find their way here.
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The minerals precipitate, and if there are microbes on the rocks as they're forming from that precipitation, those microbes effect the shape of the rock.
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Researchers swabbed 41 chimpanzee nests in Tanzania and found almost none of the microbes found in human beds, such as fecal microbes, the report said.
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Lo and behold, the germ-free mice exposed to the weight-cycling microbes gained weight faster than those given microbes from mice on normal chow.
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They don't get IBD until you put microbes back in them "As soon as you put the microbes in them, they'll develop disease," Devkota says.
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Another question is how — and if — Musk plans to prevent Earth microbes from contaminating Mars, and Mars microbes (if there are any) from contaminating Earth.
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You need 40,000 plant samples to find just a few interesting microbes, because our understanding of how plants and microbes interact is still so limited.
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Actually, we see that microbes influence the development of the immune system in the first place and that the immune system tolerates a lot of microbes.
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The tests found that all of these surfaces were covered in microbes (contain your shock), but they weren't the kind of microbes that are harmful to people.
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The scientists also speculated that these water-borne microbes might be distantly related to similar microbes found in hot springs and contaminated, arsenic-rich sites on land.
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The evolution of antibiotic-resistant microbes means that it is always necessary to find new drugs to battle microbes that are no longer treatable with current antibiotics.
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After all, they just existed at different locations on a spectrum: Maybe microbes arose on a far-off planet, and maybe those microbes evolved and built radio transmitters.
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To do that, he set about killing the collection of microbes that live on and inside his body and replacing them with microbes he'd collected from a friend.
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Proponents counter that any microbes caught in someone's mask are microbes they would otherwise have inhaled and that direct evidence of harm from incorrect mask use is scant.
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After that, pets might directly transfer beneficial microbes when they touch babies, and infants may also pick up pet microbes that are left on household surfaces or in dust.
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Measurements of methane, molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the global ocean show that the ocean has the chemical energy necessary for microbes to produce methane -- if there are microbes.
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More and more, research finds that microbes affect everything from digestion to infection to birth, and one promising application is to send special microbes inside the body to deliver medicine.
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So our view of microbes dates back to the time of people like [pioneering microbiologists] Robert Koch and [Louis] Pasteur — people who showed that germs, that microbes, could cause disease.
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Gut microbes are kept slightly removed from the intestinal lining by a thin layer of mucus, and the Western diet seems to erode that protective barrier, bringing microbes too close.
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It's a concept called planetary protection, and it's focused on stopping the spread of Earth microbes on other worlds, as well as preventing the spread of alien microbes here on Earth.
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Seventeen years ago, when sequencing the genomes of large numbers of environmental microbes was prohibitively expensive, studying the genetics of soil microbes meant scientists would chop the DNA into small pieces.
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The human microbiome has about the same rate of metabolism as an organ (the liver), and the microbes reproduce so quickly that half of the dry matter in stool is discarded microbes.
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Measurements of methane, molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the global ocean show that the ocean has the chemical energy necessary for microbes to produce methane -- if there are microbes, Waite said.
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Termites and their gut microbes are thought to have coevolved between two hundred and fifty million and a hundred and fifty-five million years ago, when some cockroaches ingested wood-eating microbes, and then began sharing what entomologists politely call "woodshake"—a mixture of feces, microbes, and plant matter—among themselves, mouth to mouth, and mouth to anus.
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According to Ganesan, Ancera instead sorts microbes in a food sample and pushes them up against a sensor agent, then takes pictures of the microbes, counting the number of them in a sample.
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Some intriguing early research suggests links between the microbes that our animal companions bring into our homes — and that we breathe in and swallow — and the microbes that thrive in our digestive tract.
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But finding DNA isn't the same as finding resident microbes.
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Intelligence is not a quality to attribute lightly to microbes.
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You inhale them, and the microbes get into your lungs.
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For example, genetically engineered microbes: are those natural or artificial?
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It's just that these microbes almost certainly came from Earth.
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You'll be dealing in microbes, my friend, not telepathic monsters.
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In mice, certain microbes are thought to protect against diabetes.
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But at night, the congregating microbes get their shine on.
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Several different species of microbes are involved in stromatolite creation.
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From about day two to four, the microbes are everywhere.
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Microbes are still critical for maintaining life on Earth today.
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The core technology to produce these microbes is readily available.
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There's also the possibility that some microbes might be revivable.
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These microbes are within and around us all the time.
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These tiny, shrimplike creatures filter algae and microbes from water.
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Much about these microbes remains murky, and subject to debate.
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But the gut's microbes do more than just make energy.
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NASA scientists found that the microbes mainly came from humans.
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Their immune systems may be no match for modern microbes.
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Previous studies focused largely on the degrading effect of microbes.
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Agar turned out to be the perfect habitat for microbes.
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We are always one or more steps behind the microbes.
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To do so, they're enlisting the help of soil microbes.
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The presence of other microbes keeps its numbers in check.
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Such microbes are among the most resistant, and the deadliest.
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"If there were oxygen producing microbes then, [as well as] microbes that were oxidizing iron near hydrothermal vents, we have quite a significant diversity, because these are somewhat distantly related microorganisms today," said Papineau.
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The microbes just shrugged these chemicals off and continued to thrive.
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"The microbes are the prequel to the amyloid hypothesis," Tanzi said.
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Microbes can breathe perchlorate — a lot of life can breathe perchlorate.
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But, are the microbes that share our commute actually more dangerous?
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It can be difficult to figure out which microbes are which.
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It's yet another way in which microbes can influence our lives.
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The tardigrades feed on the microbes that live in this environment.
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Engineering microbes to make spider silk could aid in that effort.
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According to a new hypothesis, the culprit was nitrogen-hungry microbes.
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There's also the possibility that Enceladian microbes use bioluminescence to survive.
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And yes, aliens (specifically, alien microbes) were on the short list.
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Now, scientists have found moss and microbes growing on the continent.
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These tiny wounds are the perfect place for microbes to settle.
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In the large intestine, microbes play a huge role in digestion.
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With trillions of muggable microbes, there are plenty to choose from.
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The panels of the system harbor a solution containing algae microbes.
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This collection of fungi and microbes makes up a healthy microbiome.
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Soil microbes seem to rely on a similarly two-pronged strategy.
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The scientists didn't identify the specific microbes that might be important.
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Many of them also lead to the death of the microbes.
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Most of the microbes on the ISS have a human link.
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The microbes in question here are known generally as commensal bacteria.
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Well, they found some cool microbes but uh, nothing too exciting.
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They had more gut microbes that produced the sugar, Soares speculated.
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They work by dissolving microbes' protective outer layer, which kills them.
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They were built by microbes, which used them to shuttle electricity.
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There is still too much to learn about the microbes themselves.
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Mothers seed their babies with microbes during childbirth and breast feeding.
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Our ancestors survived many plagues with the help of their microbes.
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We might only find dead microbes, or fossil imprints of them.
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Microbes' goals are to coexist with humans, not to kill humans.
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Why lug around a few pounds of microbes in your gut?
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Some bumble bee colonies share symbiotic microbes that ward off parasites.
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So where do we look if we want to find microbes?
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"Humans are seeded with microbes by the mothers," Dominguez-Bello said.
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Although halophiles — microbes that thrive in saline conditions — have been identified in Dallol, this new research is the first to focus on microbes thriving in extreme acidity and heat, in addition to salinity, Dr. Gómez said.
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Dr. Farley emphasized that the rover is not carrying tools to look for any living microbes, and said that the Martian surface today is too dry, too cold and too bombarded by radiation for microbes to survive.
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Extremophiles—microbes capable of living in the harshest environments on Earth—would be the first microbes dispersed to Mars, likely buried a few feet underground to protect them from the freezing conditions and radiation on the surface.
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Some pathogenic microbes, like viruses, can't be detected within agar petri dishes.
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We take those, isolate the microbes, we grow them and sequence them.
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They saw that the microbes changed dramatically after the hospital became operational.
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They watched as the drops delicately catapulted the microbes into the air.
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When natural microbes were added, the results showed a 10% yield increase.
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Strogolov thinks dicamba might be harming gut microbes critical for bee health.
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Patients on oral antibiotics had virtually no change to their skin microbes.
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Now, researchers are finding we also share our microbes through our money.
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Waste is stored in large, oxygen-free tanks (called digesters) with microbes.
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And we're going to be helping out the microbes we depend upon.
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And which types of microbes would most likely be used as bioweapons?
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Last year researchers at the two firms tested a further 2,000 microbes.
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Researchers will also look for microbes in plaques found in human brains.
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Now, for the most part, the microbes in your navel are harmless.
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A group of microbes called bacteroides dominated in Finnish and Estonian infants.
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It's when pathogenic microbes team up that they become a greater threat.
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Some of these microbes are themselves, like the termite superorganism, composite animals.
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That gave them an instant, Olympian view of myriad microbes at once.
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He is infectiously enthusiastic about microbes, and he describes them with verve.
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And they were made by an ancient civilization of microbes, not people.
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Soil microbes in the experimental plots have likewise increased their metabolic rate.
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That's a chemical called geosmin, released by awakening microbes in the soil.
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Making biochemicals via microbes living on the skin or in the gut.
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First of all, we all have lots of microbes inside of us.
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This was unexpected, because the space station has its own unique microbes.
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"My tenure as commissioner has been dominated by microbes," Dr. Bassett said.
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"My tenure as health commissioner was definitely dominated by microbes," she said.
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Microbes like bacteria bridge the living and nonliving spheres of the Earth.
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From there, the microbes get to work, turning the alcohol into vinegar.
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Other microbes even breathe uranium and expel the waste as teeny crystals.
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Subsurface microbes might only reproduce every thirty years, or take even longer.
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So why should the influence of microbes matter so much in comparison?
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When bacteria die, their DNA becomes up for grabs by other microbes.
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We may reach Mars and find some microbes in 20 years' time.
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He would look back to the illustration of the feverishly multiplying microbes.
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"A Frankenstein material" is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes.
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Those antibiotics kill your native microbes, allowing C. diff to move in.
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But we can control what we feed our microbes — what we eat.
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Dr. McKay said the hydrogen levels are far above what microbes need.
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Beta amyloid, he said, forms a sticky web that can trap microbes.
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Microbes live in water, soil, air, and in the human body too.
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Kids can also play soccer by steering their microbes through goal posts.
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The Age of Microbes has persisted to the present day without interruption.
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Nealson was curious: were the microbes somehow taking a census of themselves?
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Microbes gobble up the nutrients, leaving behind cellulose, a form of fiber.
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Bacteria and other single-celled microbes belong to a group called prokaryotes.
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Bacteria and other single-celled microbes belong to a group called prokaryotes.
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Deadly microbes can look like harmless components of vaccine and agricultural work.
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The researchers also found changes in the operations of many microbes' genes.
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He thinks we all could benefit from the microbes they're picking up.
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Killing off the friendly microbes also causes others to mutate more quickly.
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Moreover, it is possible to facilitate this process using microbes that live on urea, an organic compound found in urine, meaning that astronauts could take a leak on a mixture of microbes and Martian regolith to make cement.
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The startup engineers its special microbes to produce the chemicals in-house, combining software and new biochemistry technology to make its materials at scale, and tells TechCrunch it started shipping the first bio-malonic acid-producing microbes to customers.
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Scientists used to believe that the soil microbes found in the deserts of Antarctica were the same as those found in the Amazon rainforest, but studies showed that, like all organisms, soil microbes are highly adapted to local conditions.
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A mission to colonize Mars with people would necessarily colonize the planet with the microbes A mission to colonize Mars with people would necessarily colonize the planet with the microbes in our food, our waste, and on our bodies.
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These aren't fossilized imprints of the microbes, but the stuff they left behind.
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You're also sharing and swapping the teeming microbes that call our bodies home.
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This suggests the underground microbes are consuming hydrogen gas to get their fuel.
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The effects of the microbes' interactions were drowned out by the environmental influences.
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The treatments consist of naturally occurring microbes, like plant-friendly bacteria and fungi.
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Patients also picked up microbes already present in the rooms before their stay.
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The company's focus is on microbes, the tiny microorganisms that help plants grow.
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But in that remaining 0.000-whatever it is, there's still microbes in there.
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Scientists have sequenced the human genome, thousands of microbes, plants and other animals.
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But some health experts aren't sure the biocides can kill microbes fast enough.
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And it gives us great insight on how microbes live on our planet.
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Samples of the world's most dangerous microbes are kept in ultra-secure labs.
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So similar microbes may have popped up near these deep-space fissures, too.
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"Microbes are capable of ecosystem engineering," said research team leader Dr. Arwyn Edwards.
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"We found that after an hour, many microbes were still cultivable," Buie said.
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SHERLOCK adapts CRISPR's genius, which borrows a naturally occurring defense mechanism in microbes.
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Most of our antibiotics have come from microbes that live in the soil.
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Pathogens were becoming resistant with outside help: from microbes that already had it.
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Your microbiome is the community of microbes that live in and on you.
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You would have to bring both the microbes and the bioreactor from home.
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This leaves the microbes down there to feed on the chemical available, iron.
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They asked Tobin if she would help study the soil microbes in Centralia.
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"Most microbes live on a razor's edge between life and death," Lennon says.
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How do microbes enable not just human evolution but also our continued existence?
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As soil thaws, microbes munch away at its organic materials, producing greenhouse gases.
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The flooded soils in rice paddies are rich environments for methane-producing microbes.
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life.
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For example, what is the full spectrum of microbes that cause human disease?
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Elsewhere in the body, such proteins trap microbes — viruses, fungi, yeast and bacteria.
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Outdoor ticket machines had microbes that are prevalent in soil and the air.
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The waste and water stagnating down there creates a veritable soup of microbes.
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THE AIRLESS nooks under a man's foreskin are a cosy spot for microbes.
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Proponents claim that raw water's health benefits include naturally occurring minerals and microbes.
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These microbes could make Mars more suitable for human habitation, the researchers say.
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The "germ theory" became the main lens through which the world viewed microbes.
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I CONTAIN MULTITUDES: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life.
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The only aspect of her physiology that had changed was her gut microbes.
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Surprisingly, the spring waters contained almost no microbes — barely enough DNA to analyze.
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"In biotech, we were using clean and sustainable technology on microbes," he said.
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Scientists have found the waxworm caterpillars have gut microbes that degrade plastic compounds.
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Second, our deep lung has some cells that kill microbes that arrive there.
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In the real world, we have already seen dangerous microbes escape the laboratory.
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The most obvious culprit behind the loss of native gut microbes is diet.
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Microbes are known to inhabit similar lakes on Earth, and so who knows?
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What's rarer, Bralower said, is how quickly the microbes were able to return.
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"Microbes kind of paved the way for higher orders of life," Bralower said.
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Spider silk is made of proteins that ought to be attractive to microbes.
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At hydrothermal vents on Earth, the hydrogen is quickly gobbled up by microbes.
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Q&A Q. Are any microbes hardy enough to survive in outer space?
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That's because microbes, Casadevall said, have the ability to adapt to warmer temperatures.
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The spread of antibiotic-resistant microbes also continues at an ever faster rate.
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"We think that the more microbes you've got, the better your metabolism is."
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Often, microbes are interdependent: what is waste for one is essential for another.
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Enveloping these items in copper reduced the presence of microbes by 2600 percent.
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As a result, some plants, animals, microbes and fungi win, and some lose.
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He began detailing his extremely nerdy intention of studying the microbes on it.
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Honey also contains small amounts of hydrogen peroxide, which inhibits growth of microbes.
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"We were able to build a very detailed map — a cartography if you will — of this new hospital environment and the role of the hospital itself in the transmission of microbes and how microbes were shaped by that environment," Gilbert says.
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The idea is not just to identify, predict and prevent disease from the known, harmful strains of microbes in the soil, but to also begin to understand which microbes are beneficial to the soil, and help farmers grow those, Wu added.
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So they call Yale's Chan, who has a library of the bacteria-annihilating microbes.
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Because sometimes you just gotta go with your gut (or rather, your gut microbes).
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And bits of plastic may act as rafts for harmful microbes in the oceans.
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Some microbes thrive in low-oxygen environments, while others require more oxygen to survive.
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People can live on every continent, but our planet really belongs to the microbes.
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Researchers are currently evaluating the impact the microbes might have on the CarbFix calcite.
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Whatever cheese you thought about, you have microbes to thank for that delicious food.
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In this sense, they more closely resemble prokaryotes, which are microbes that lack nuclei.
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DNA was extracted from the twins' samples to identify what fecal microbes were present.
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The greatest difference in the types of microbes was seen when comparing visceral fat.
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There are many reasons underlying why resistance has emerged so widely among infectious microbes.
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But most environmental microbes cannot be cultured this way, and especially not cave microorganisms.
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As a final note, it's important to remember that not all microbes are bad.
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So what was it about the obesity-associated microbes that was promoting weight gain?
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We now know that these microbes are crucially important to all facets of health.
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Shkaplerov will have another opportunity to sleuth out extraterrestrial microbes on the station's exterior.
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Our bodies are teeming with trillions of beneficial microbes that we need to live.
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After that, we also add various microbes and non-organic nutrients, such as phosphorus.
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They found that certain microbes could encourage normal growth in those who are undernourished.
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The staffers themselves also swapped microbes more frequently when the air was more humid.
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Like the geothermal vents deep within Earth's oceans, these could be home to microbes.
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Most of the microbes the researchers in New York identified do not cause disease.
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Local microbes deposit themselves into the seed bank when conditions are less than ideal.
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For those unfamiliar, the company makes crazy new materials out of genetically altered microbes.
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They looked at killer T-cells, which multiply and attack microbes during an infection.
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Think of it this way: Let's say you introduce some Earth microbes to Mars.
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Both communities of microbes produced endotoxin, but not, it turned out, of equal potency.
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" Ehrlich is quoted as saying, "We must learn to shoot microbes with magic bullets.
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There are other weaponizable microbes, including smallpox and tularemia, that experts are concerned about.
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But exactly how soil microbes defend plants was a puzzle Dr. Henry couldn't solve.
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Along with this general defense, soil microbes can also target individual species of pathogens.
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What microbes are in the air, and in the rooms, and on the surfaces?
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The microbes help the animal break down grass and other plant food through fermentation.
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With every gram of food you eat, you swallow about a million microbes more.
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The steady nighttime breathing that could be exhaling who knows what kinds of microbes.
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These tiny microbes can eke out a living in deep ocean sediment and rock.
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They're still focusing on singular microbes and plant stressors but expect some early victories.
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After all, do you notice the 100 trillion microbes or more in your body?
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Conventional wisdom is that Martian life, if it exists, would be limited to microbes.
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Previous research has suggested the dispersants actually slowed microbes' ability to degrade the oil.
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"Eating lots of sugar speeds up the loss of your heritable microbes," Dupont said.
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Speculated causes have included dust, microbes, carpets, ventilation and, like in Linda's story, mold.
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Babies born vaginally primarily acquire the microbes that inhabit their mother's vagina and bowel.
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Instead, he studied the microbiome, the trillions of microbes inside the healthy human body.
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Sharing spit may be one way of exposing a baby to these crucial microbes.
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The first line of treatment for the attacking microbes, called Clostridium difficile, is antibiotics.
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And forests, like grasslands, insects and oxygen-producing microbes, were once a evolutionary innovation.
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Some of the microbes are bacteria or fungus, but many of them are viruses.
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Microbes in homes also contribute unique flavors to sourdough breads, homemade yogurts and kimchis.
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I get lonely easily and maybe microbes will be what passes for cosmic company.
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And we might have to decide whether microbes, or entire potential biospheres, have rights.
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"Basically the first survivors, the first inhabitants of the crater, were microbes," Bralower said.
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The first life on Earth, simple marine microbes, appeared roughly 4 billion years ago.
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People have a little bit of a misconception about microbes being gross and icky.
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Traces of chicken, fish and other seafood were among the most commonly found microbes.
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It's another reminder to not skip the soap, Nature's best solution to mischievous microbes.
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Also make sure your sponge is wet — the steam kills many microbes, experts say.
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As a microbiologist, Massimiliano Marvasi has spent years studying how microbes have defeated us.
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The nanowires may also power other microbes that can signal pollutants, toxins or explosives.
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" "Fermenting just means allowing microbes to work on the food to grow in it.
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As far as we know, the Curiosity rover did not introduce microbes to Mars.
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Research on the microbes that inhabit our bodies has progressed rapidly in recent years.
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Young elephants eat their mothers' feces to acquire the microbes needed to digest food.
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Scientists believe this kind of metabolism happens only with prokaryotes, microbes without a nucleus.
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The tree would not have carried any disease-causing microbes from root to fruit.
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There is also a lot of development of so-called biological products such as living microbes that can kill pests, or ways to improve the health of the "plant microbiome," the community of microbes that live in, on or around a plant.
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Waite offers another solution: maybe microbes are there, but there aren't that many of them.
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Amino acids, lipids and vitamins that the microbes release circulate in the host mouse's blood.
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Microbes were the only form of life on Earth for thousands of millions of years.
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"There is a marine-resource legacy that the microbes are still tapping into," he says.
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These microbes produce an enzyme called extended spectrum beta-lactamase, which breaks down antibiotic compounds.
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Because these successions appear to be highly predictable, microbes function as timekeepers and trace evidence.
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Drug deaths appeared to harbor distinct communities of microbes compared with deaths by natural causes.
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The microbes infect blacklegged ticks, which can transmit the infection to people through a bite.
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Monsanto also formed the BioAg Alliance with Novozyme to use microbes to improve crop harvests.
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HUMAN neurons are distant relatives of tiny yeast cells, themselves descendants of even simpler microbes.
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If one planet contains microbes, it's very likely the others will have life as well.
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Some of the surviving microbes produce acid, which causes the sour taste and chunky texture.
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"Oftentimes, the microbes influence the shape of the rocks as they're being formed," Ruff said.
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To use microbes to deliver medicine, you need to know exactly where these organisms are.
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Of the latter, four were swabbed with the mother's vaginal microbes and seven were not.
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The dust collected from Amish homes contained more microbes—6.8 times more to be precise.
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It turns out these microbes use hooks to cling on in desperation while we pee.
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In bread, though, as in chocolate, the microbes are dead at the point of consumption.
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NASA will also need to protect these microbes from radiation during the journey to Mars.
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And it also may be another place in which microbes thrived — separate from the lake.
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An underground reservoir may be the perfect place for Mars microbes to survive as well.
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Literally the smallest living things: Microbes and microorganisms, and how they behave all around us.
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This means overexposing microbes, which can be quick to adapt, to our limited drug options.
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Among the places that the researchers looked at, Flagstaff was the most rich in microbes.
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This would give the researchers an idea of how the soil microbes changed over time.
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There is so much that it clumps on its own, without the presence of microbes.
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It is normally found in the vagina, living in balance with bacteria and other microbes.
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It's not immediately clear why this particular object is home to such potentially valuable microbes.
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As those microbes gather around the plant, they release compounds that can kill the pathogen.
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Mathematical models indicate that at least some of this vagabond debris still harbored living microbes.
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And the simplicity of the mechanism — microbes that stimulate the innate immune system — is heartening.
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I CONTAIN MULTITUDESThe Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life By Ed YongIllustrated.
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Ginkgo Bioworks is a startup that designs microbes to produce substances like fragrances or medications.
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More may be from microbes living in the trunks that themselves generate methane, says Gauci.
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The brine could have acted as a culture for the purple microbes to begin sprouting.
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The idea is to synthetically enhance microbes into super-miners with special metal-binding flagella.
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It's never been proven that wet towels can transmit the microbes that can cause STDs.
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We are more than just ourselves, but also these microbes are a part of us.
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"Taking a shower is a major way we get exposed to environmental microbes," he continued.
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The science is finally there to find microbes that can help plants, according to Beattie.
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I wanted to make a record for people but also for cats, magnolias, and microbes.
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It found that microbes in icy environments were similar to ones in mountainous tropical regions.
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Other creatures ate the plants and microbes, and then larger creatures ate the smaller ones.
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Or maybe the microbes produced substances that kept the corals from eating them as quickly.
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Wastewater would get purified as it was pumped through soil, where microbes would remove contaminants.
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Putting probes in the mud, he observed the chemical reactions carried out by its microbes.
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And when it comes time to throw wires away, they become food for other microbes.
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First, it's very unlikely that the microbes found on bar soap will make you sick.
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Antibiotics kill off microbes systemically, including the ones in our gut, thus altering our microbiome.
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To test the microbiome's importance, Dr. Hsiao and her colleagues raised mice free of microbes.
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It was life acting through microbes that helped set off some of Earth's "snowball" phases.
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There are 10,000 times more microbes in our intestines than human beings on the planet.
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When fields get too heavily tilled, soil microbes that fix nitrogen are destroyed, she explains.
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But previous research had proved that microbes can survive on various surfaces for several days.
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Instead of little green men, we are looking for microbes, which is O.K. with me.
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That made sense, Dr. Reddy, said, because microbes can eat many forms of organic carbon.
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The geological record shows that these microbes were deposited immediately after the crater was formed.
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They pumped in methane and extracted deadly waste gases that might kill the resident microbes.
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Even though you're in your shower every day, and there's microbes on you every day.
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The ones that doctors prescribe today were mostly discovered in the soil, made by microbes.
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These compete fiercely with the resident microbes for the nutrients provided by the ant glands.
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A wide variety of other microbes and bacteria can hang out on surfaces and hands.
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But how would you deliver nutrients into the Venusian atmosphere to help sustain those microbes?
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Scientists have found microbes around the pond, but the water itself may not support life.
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Ginkgo Bioworks is a startup that designs microbes to produce substances like fragrances and medications.
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COSPAR, among other matters, develops recommendations and protocols designed to protect space from our microbes.
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Yet these antibiotic-resistant microbes, which are spreading fast in hospitals, aren't a new phenomenon.
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Evolutionary biologists have long included microbes and parasites in how they think about sexual reproduction.
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What is clear, however, is that moms often deliberately transmit healthful microbes to their infants.
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Then, microbes come in and cover them, creating a film that rapidly dissolves their skeleton.
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That environment might have been habitable for microbes, had any been on Mars long ago.
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But some bacteria can make us sick, and antibiotics can kill off these harmful microbes.
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Instead, microbes power themselves via their geothermal, carbon-rich environment, in a process called chemosynthesis.
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Benbow's work is now taking a closer look at the microbes that the insects carry.
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But the skin, our body's largest organ, makes lots of important interactions with microbes, too.
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The paper joins a growing body of work seeking to make sense of how microbes interact, and to illuminate one of the field's biggest unknowns: whether the main drivers of change in a microbial community are the microbes themselves or the environment around them.
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Weight gain might be affected by the trillions of microbes living in our gut, researchers say.
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Hotter conditions may also be giving some disease-causing microbes greater resistance to antibiotics, Salas said.
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Choose from countless single options or themed boxes (like the "Let's Get It On" pregnancy microbes).
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No doubt, spreading our microbes to other planets, moons, asteroids, and comets is totally not cool.
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Three other types of fossils had the same ratios as methane-eating or methane-producing microbes.
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Our bodies are also skilled at navigating the countless microbes we encounter on a daily basis.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids the "harmful contamination" of alien worlds with our earthly microbes.
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MISSING MICROBES: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues, by Martin J. Blaser.
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It was only a single data point, but the relative abundance of microbes looked remarkably similar.
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Reuters said that two unpublished academic studies found the presence of microbes on Rio's showcase beaches.
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The underlying premise was, in my mind, that blood is naturally pure and free of microbes.
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One important question is whether the microbes that these methods find are medically important or not.
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To replace these microbes, some parents have turned to a novel procedure called vaginal microbial transfer.
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What microbes do is allow animals to make use of adaptations that already evolved in bacteria.
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But it gets more dire quickly: harmful microbes like E. coli are found in fecal matter.
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Perhaps they would launch anyway, and my microbes would make it all the way to Mars.
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It also didn't look at the astronauts' microbiomes, or the collection of microbes inside their bodies.
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Scientists playing God is always good copy, even if the creations were, as yet, mostly microbes.
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When microbes reach the lungs, the body's immune system reacts by dispatching cells to attack them.
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Nitrates and microbes from faeces also seep into aquifers that supply drinking water in some places.
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Warinner, the book's editor, investigates how tiny microbes like bacteria have shaped human health over time.
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"How exactly exposure to microbes alters immune function in this way is not known," Hancox said.
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What they found: People who were at-risk of developing diabetes tended to have different microbes.
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Microbes also have considerable potential when it comes to cleaning up the mess oil sometimes makes.
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Newer research is finding that microbes make a lot of other active chemicals too, called metabolites.
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Take sepsis, which occurs when microbes enter parts of the body that would otherwise be sterile.
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Hundreds of species of microbes thrive inside of you, helping you to live your best life.
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An influx of nutrients may feed precisely those microbes that release carbon back into the atmosphere.
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By using biotechnology to reduce disease in livestock, we lessen the likelihood of microbes infecting humans.
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"Microbes could have flourished here in liquid water that was in contact with minerals," NASA said.
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They are first colonized by bacteria and other microbes when they exit their mother's birth canal.
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Dormancy explained how so many microbes—up to 1010 cells per gram of soil—could coexist.
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Centralia's position at the fulcrum of climate issues is based on more than just its microbes.
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As the ground warms, the microbes in the soil wake up and start belching greenhouse gases.
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The longer you're on an airplane, the longer you're exposed to microbes that might cause disease.
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Dirty fingers or a dirty brush could pass harmful microbes to the rim of the tube.
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We only discovered microbes about 350 years ago — but they've been around for much, much longer.
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When common navel microbes, like corynebacterium, build up, they emit pungent odors, similar to body odor.
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By using different methods of analysis, the researchers were able to learn more about the microbes.
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"With anything that you store, microbes are just going to start growing in it," Shanahan said.
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I CONTAIN MULTITUDES: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, by Ed Yong.
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They also can be sprayed onto flowering plants, which take the beneficial microbes into their seeds.
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Long-term it plans to develop microbes for vegetables, berries and other high-value crops, too.
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On an annual basis, the CO2 microbes release more than offsets the amount removed by plants.
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He took gut microbes from each, and inserted them into the intestines of microbe-free mice.
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Each newborn emerges with hitchhikers of their own—a colony of microbes gifted from their mother.
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But it's also possible that other microbes are involved in ways that doctors just haven't considered.
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He had expected the mine microbes to be feeding off organic matter dissolved in the water.
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They figured out that the carbon molecules in the microbes came from methane, a plausible answer.
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If Beatrix is a guide, the methane could be providing the energy for many other microbes.
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Dr. Ashkin's optical tweezers have been especially important in biological research on viruses and other microbes.
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This suggests that altering a primate's gut microbes may change its immune response to alpha-gal.
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This will kill infectious microbes like, but it won't go that extra mile of removing grubbiness.
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Those stomachs also have various microbes, which break down the food and release CH4, or methane.
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Many were connecting specific diseases to the disappearance of particular gut microbes, often due to antibiotics.
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He had procured a friend's poop and planned to inoculate himself using the microbes in it.
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Mr. Simmons of Elanco has long played down livestock's role in spreading resistant microbes to humans.
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Microbes do more for the good of our health than they do to make us sick.
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Fresh, wobbly curds are ladled by hand into molds to ripen with microbes in humid conditions.
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Some of these microbes carry the enzymes needed to break down various kinds of dietary fiber.
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It may even point to present-day Martian microbes living in the rocks below the surface.
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Since he could say the word, my son has been obsessed with the subject of microbes.
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In the afternoon, microbes and marine-based samples came from remote locations -- carried on dust particles.
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"These microbes are very different from those previously known to occur on the surface of deserts."
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Microbes are one more factor to consider in the alphabet soup of factors affecting cancer proliferation.
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"This is intriguing and exciting research," said Dr. Ami Bhatt, who studies microbes at Stanford University.
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Cooking produced significant changes, affecting the kinds of microbes that thrived and which genes they used.
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a building material that utilizes live microbes.
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The microbes in the brick are cyanobacteria, which perform photosynthesis to grow, taking in carbon dioxide.
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The microbes, which are adapted to life in the cold seafloor, have a slow-motion existence.
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The microbes eagerly absorbed light and began producing calcium carbonate, gradually cementing the sand particles together.
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Many of these are directed at invertebrates and microbes, relatives of what makes an animal sick.
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And just doing a survey of all of the kinds of microbes that are out there.
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Trilobites Whenever you withdraw money from an automated teller machine, the A.T.M. deposits microbes onto you.
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Microbes sharing a high proportion of those 355 genes are still found in such vents today.
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Only the runners, however, had developed populations of gut microbes that are associated with lifelong leanness.
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A. Experiments have found that many microbes survive and even thrive in a space-vessel environment.
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The idea here is to embed clothing items with products that naturally kill certain forms of bacteria and microbes; with this in place, body odor could potentially be eliminated, and you could protect yourself from many of the dangerous microbes that lurk in gyms and weight rooms.
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In this case, low-temperature serpentinization could be generating enough hydrogen gas to support methane-producing microbes.
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It's one of the first times scientists have identified a direct mechanism linking gut microbes to health.
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"I found marine microbes," study author Luciana Migliore from Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy told Gizmodo.
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The bees venture 1.5 miles away from their hives, collecting various types of microbes along the way.
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Recent research shows that cavity-causing microbes can actually invade a person's heart, causing a deadly infection.
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Reactions between oxygen and other chemicals also provide forms of energy certain microbes can feed off of.
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By doing that, the hit rate is higher in determining which microbes produce certain results, he said.
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LanzaTech uses microbes and waste gases — including those from the steel industry — to make fuels and chemicals.
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The first step was getting that friend to give up his microbes via skin swabs and poop.
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Unfortunately, all pre-existing bacterial cancer therapies require multiple injections of the microbes, and relapses are common.
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In a second experiment the researchers presented microbes from the various fields with the same faecal mix.
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In Hyderabad, India's pharmaceuticals capital, antibiotics are leaking into rivers, accelerating the development of drug-resistant microbes.
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"What we are really interested [in] is making the process of engineering microbes more predictable," he said.
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When those microbes form partnerships with animals [including humans], they can shunt those genes over to us.
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Microbes inside the fuel cell break down organic matter in the waste and convert it into electricity.
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We're also working on omniphobic coatings that repel or kill microbes, and materials that are ice-phobic.
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Ferments made by different people can vary because of the different microbes transferred from their makers' hands.
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Hard-working microbes engineered to produce strong spider silk could one day aid astronauts living on Mars.
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These clumps were once microbial cells, and are similar to modern microbes found in hydrothermal vent environments.
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So what happens when the same people and microbes are in a confined space for that long?
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But deep in the caves, Barton has found something different—microbes that have already developed antibiotic resistance.
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"We would be scared if all the microbes on Earth would have been wiped out," she says.
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When fed normal chow, neither group—not even the mice transplanted with obesity-associated microbes—gained weight.
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So the second phase of the project looked at the interplay between these microbes and our bodies.
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They're a complex agglomeration consisting of ourselves and the hundred trillion microbes that live inside of us.
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Microbes: Our tiny crucial allies To that end, we are compiling a database of medieval medical recipes.
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It also comes from outside infection and other microbes we are exposed to, especially in early life.
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These dormant microbes with very reduced metabolic activity exist in a liminal space between life and death.
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The concept of dormant microbes was at least a century old, but biologists thought they were rare.
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Back in the 1980s, researchers began to notice a strange pattern in the genes of many microbes.
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Chefs, scientists, and microbes are teaming up for taste "Fermentation's always been a home thing," Johnson says.
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It then used machine learning techniques to identify important microbes that are less common in modern agriculture.
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For example, we know that fiber is a great way of nourishing a wide diversity of microbes.
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Even microbes could migrate from one world to the next inside rocks kicked up by meteor strikes.
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The condition is characterized by inflammation of the brain caused by a range of microbes, typically viruses.
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MICROBES, though they get a bad press as agents of disease, play a beneficial role in agriculture.
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The project is looking into microbes that inhabit the stomachs of ruminants such as cattle and sheep.
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The bug belonged to a class of particularly tenacious microbes known as carpabenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CREs.
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Then the students D.J.'ed different beats and music while containers of microbes rested on vibrating speakers.
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Others are genetically engineering microbes to produce little-known compounds that could be useful for making drugs.
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It could be due to lingering microbes from whomever's feet were there last, versus the fish itself.
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Some of the precision weapons made by soil microbes already are appearing at your local garden store.
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The microbes produce a powder than could replace soy or pea protein in plant-based meat products.
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And, researchers are interested in whether diets can be supplemented with microbes in order to fight infection.
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"These viruses could affect the survival and metabolic function of transplanted bacteria and other microbes," he said.
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"Traces of microbes linked with chicken appeared more in a largely black community in Harlem," he writes.
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It spent an additional $6 million on genetic testing of microbes, linking the results to clinical data.
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The microbes would also have to survive the UV light and dry, unwelcoming environment on the bed.
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Most of the bacteria found were also types of microbes found in the gut, according to Science.
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Meet The Fashion Designer Who's 3D Printing Impossible Clothes Animated Abstractions Visualize Clothes Made Out Of Microbes
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For all the strangeness of the environment they live in, these microbes aren't necessarily "extremophiles," Huber said.
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Microbes are important to plants, but we only know how or why in a few use cases.
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Historically, researchers have focused on microbes found in the soil around plants because of ease of detection.
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Microbes are important to plants, but we only know how or why in a few use cases.
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It's given us an enormous boost in our ability to find microbes — ones that have significant benefits.
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That may sound odd, but it's part of a more subtle understanding of how microbes affect us.
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It cools naturally as air is pumped in from outside, and different microbes arrive at different temperatures.
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But it's not clear exactly what allows these microbes to take hold inside a healthy digestive system.
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The gas can be generated by microbes or by a geological process requiring heat and liquid water.
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With our ubiquitous hand sanitizers and antibacterial soaps, have we become obsessive when it comes to microbes?
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Dr. Gore emphasized that the study was not a recapitulation of how microbes behave in the wild.
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Not only can it plug directly into rust, it can also plug into other species of microbes.
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That alone was not surprising — microbes in oxygen-free depths can produce huge amounts of hydrogen sulfide.
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The wet breath of the forest, peppered with microbes and organic residues, creates ideal conditions for rain.
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New treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections, like multi-drug-resistant TB, could come from our ancient microbes.
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But when the researchers looked at what the microbes were making and doing, they found big differences.
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In humans, these microbes help us break down fibrous plant materials found in beans, grains, and vegetables.
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We share the same planet and breathe the same air, and we also exchange microbes including germs.
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If astronauts ever crunch across the red sands, will they also be crunching over fossils of microbes?
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He prevented diseases, developing a process — widely known as pasteurization — for killing microbes in milk and wine.
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"Now we have a window into history in terms of what early humans wanted out of microbes."
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It makes sense: When you're ill, your body is being assaulted by more microbes that need trapping.
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Initially, they hoped to isolate microbes that eat methane, which might be used to clean up sewage.
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Don't look now, but there's something on your shirt... and your arm, and your... well, everything. Microbes.
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Sometimes it's the color of the microbes in a petri dish, but smell, too, can be telling.
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The microbes' performance in space will be compared with the results of similar experiments run on Earth.
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And when you kiss your beloved, well, you may have unfriendly microbes to thank there as well.
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Certain salamanders nest in groups to share microbes that protect their eggs against pathogenic fungi, for instance.
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Now the scientists wished to see if exercise would likewise affect the functioning of microbes in people.
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Next, they looked at the composition of the microbes in the samples and found a striking difference.
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The 35-year-old Alabamian studies microbes: diverse life forms that exist invisible to the naked eye.
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There are millions of distinct types of bacteria as well as archaea -- microbes with no membrane-bound nucleus -- and eukarya -- microbes or organisms with cells that contain a nucleus and have membrane walls -- living beneath the Earth's surface, the report says, possibly exceeding the diversity of surface life.
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Whatever you call it, the idea is that the rising tide of allergic diseases comes from changes to the type and quantity of microbes we encounter in our environment, particularly in our early life, as well as from changes to the microbes that live on and in us.
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We also began to understand that microbes caused infection, and therefore to control infection-causing microbes during surgery: this meant that surgical procedures could be longer and more complex, because the surgical patient would not go into septic shock once surgeons understood how to create antiseptic operating rooms.
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The probe "tasted" the spray and revealed that the ocean was warm and possibly habitable to alien microbes.
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Methane-producing microbes can survive the conditions found on Enceladus, according to research published today in Nature Communications.
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Changes in the mother's microbes might be passed on during birth, even with a surgical delivery, Kozyrskyj added.
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How it works: Hydrogen would essentially serve as food for any microbes that might be in Enceladus' ocean.
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Combined, those x-rays create finely detailed maps of the rock, potentially revealing the past presence of microbes.
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And scientists would have to ensure that no earthly microbes aboard the robot would contaminate the alien water.
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Both lakes yielded a surprising number of microbes, and SALSA scientists are anticipating similar findings in Lake Mercer.
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These microbes represent many limbs of the archaean evolutionary tree, indicating that salt-loving adaptations emerged many times.
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You've probably heard of the human microbiome, the collection of microbes living inside and on the human body.
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They hoped to gather testimony from an unusual set of witnesses: the microbes that live after we die.
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The microbes feed on the carbon and produce ethanol, the biofuel that is blended into most U.S. gasoline.
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And like it or not, you're constantly picking up microbes from the places you visit, and vice versa.
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Changes in vaginal microbes also play a role in sexually transmitted infections, as well as urinary tract infections.
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According to the study, similar microbes might do the same in the sea sloshing beneath Enceladus' ice shell.
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Once urination stops, the microbes release their tight grip, enabling them to continue their journey towards the bladder.
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Today, at the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference, scientists from Aberystwyth University announced that microbes are heating the planet.
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It's supposed to remove most waterborne microbes from my water, although I have yet to test it out.
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To investigate this possibility, the researchers added 3-NOP to mixed populations of gut microbes in the lab.
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Fermentation enlists the microbes' aid, proceeds on their schedules, succeeds or fails according to their needs and rules.
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When you remove all interactions with new people, animals, and outdoor environments, you remove interactions with new microbes.
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It seems that yeast, mold, and other microbes really flourish in the moist environment provided by the bagpipes.
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For those worried about the welfare of the microbes, there's probably not a lot to be concerned about.
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Then he saw Barton give a talk on hunting for microbes in secluded caves untouched by human civilization.
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By loading brewer's yeast with genes from the cannabis plant, they've turned the miracle microbes into cannabinoid factories.
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So Barton's first microbiology-cave mission was to identify microbes without trying to grow them outside the cave.
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Despite the pollutants, microbes, and regular presence of raw sewage, the Canal is a regular spot for fishermen.
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Microbes, for example, make something called short-chain fatty acids which are very important for overall gut health.
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The human microbiome — meaning all of our microbes' genes — will reshape the consumerization of personalized medicine and diet.
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They could also yield valuable clues as to how the world's microbes will respond to a warming climate.
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Microbes in wetlands might be producing more methane in response to increased precipitation, or warmer temperatures, or both.
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Two, an amphibian's skin is crawling with a complex range of microbes, just like our skin, only wetter.
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Humans serve as the habitat for more than 10,000 species of microbes, according to the Human Microbe Project.
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And if you trek out to that water, you'll see how halophilic microbes have turned the liquid pink.
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So when a mother is breastfeeding, she's nourishing not only her child but also her child's first microbes.
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Some of it is natural, emitted by soil microbes living in oxygen-poor environments in marshes and wetlands.
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"Most people don't don't believe there is anything more than microbes" in Antarctica's approximately 400 sub-glacial lakes.
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Antibiotics change the balance of those microbes, killing off susceptible ones and allowing drug-resistant ones to flourish.
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Now, many of those microbes aren't unique to belly buttons, like staphylococcus, which can lead to staph infections.
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While microbes colonize your belly button from the outside, there could also be an invader from the inside.
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By the 20133s, scientists had squeezed almost every potential drug out of this small circle of amenable microbes.
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You're made of just as many microbes and fungi and bacteria as you are of cells of yourself.
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Professor Picão has documented high levels of drug-resistant microbes at five of the city's best-known beaches.
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Microbes make thousands of forms of Crispr, most of which are just starting to be investigated by scientists.
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Other research has suggested that these roasting byproducts may stimulate the growth of helpful microbes in the gut.
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"We have what we think is the world's largest collection of microbes that live in plants," Perry said.
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Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Joseph Lister and others focused the world's attention on microbes' ability to cause diseases.
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These trips have invariably introduced an array of microbes to the orbital outpost, as have shipments of cargo.
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So what might have allowed this particular brain to evade the microbes that would have otherwise devoured it?
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Indigo's team also studies methods for growing and applying the microbes and conducts field tests across multiple continents.
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Other evidence suggests that gut microbes might affect weight gain in humans as they do in lab animals.
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And often, resistant microbes can transfer genetic material to each other to become even more dangerous to humans.
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Scientists think any life there "may look like microbes, or maybe something more complex," a NASA report said.
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If microbes were generating the radioactive gases, then there should be no gas rising from the sterilized soil.
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These unwelcome microbes can end up being one of the causes for nasty smells coming from your bottle.
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First, most of our noses and throats carry safe bacteria, not microbes like coronavirus that can cause pneumonia.
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While some of us may fare better because of our age or health, the microbes themselves are impartial.
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Dive into the Ediacaran seas, and you'd see sediments covered in thick sheets of green or white microbes.
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It wouldn't explain where the microbes came from, whether any patients were infected, and how they were cured.
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Many companies today use genetically engineered microbes to make medicines like insulin or useful chemicals like detergent enzymes.
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Global health Minuscule particles coated with anti-seizure drugs seem to halt microbes that feed on brain tissue.
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Even worse, the microbes in the industrial starter were pumping out acetic acid, the key ingredient in vinegar.
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The researchers have proposed that they belong to a new phylum, which they called Tectomicrobia, meaning hidden microbes.
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Or it could be a product of life — specifically methanogens, microbes that release methane as a waste product.
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Seeing how microbes snatch new genetic material from their environment could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
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Her team believes many aspects of this maneuver are shared among other microbes, though more studies are needed.
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And if arrested, would they die in captivity from disease, their immune systems no match for modern microbes?
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Microbes break down food in our guts and produce gases like carbon dioxide or methane as a byproduct.
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"They might die and fall to the seabed, and the microbes had a good day," said Dr. Houghton.
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When he and his team drilled into a subsurface lake there a few years ago, they found microbes.
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Biologists and ecologists go there to study the stubborn persistence of various life-forms, from microbes to mammals.
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However, the majority of these important microbes are already inside your gut, intestines, and elsewhere helping you out.
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It was possible that these microbes were using these genes for the same purposes — or for something else.
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So for example, in our gut there, there's a microbe that goes into other microbes, multiplies and explodes.
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You don't even have to learn a thing about microbes, but you could still have a good time.
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And as microbes process the vast quantities of formerly frozen organic matter, more warming gases will be released.
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Most of the bacteria found on skin is harmless or beneficial, preventing pathogenic microbes from inhabiting the area.
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Swarms of deep sea shrimp crawled around the vent, as they devoured microbes living off the vent's nutrients.
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Because metabolism works differently in microgravity, for microbes as well as humans, the resulting flavors might differ too.
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The lights are controlled by a joystick, allowing users to control the direction in which the microbes move.
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When animals excreted their intestinal microbes — as in, they pooped — most bacteria dried out and died over time.
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One limitation of the experiment is that the microbes are being grown on an Earth rock—igneous basalt.
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Whether they're really smelling and choosing the human genes directly or the microbes, or both, is anyone's guess.
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Naked mole rat pups plead for anal excretions from their parents — imparting microbes that also help them thrive.
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The microbes, it turned out, were a species of proteobacteria, named for Proteus, the shape-shifting Greek god.
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Since then, studies have shown that copper is able to destroy the microbes that most threaten our lives.
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Many antibiotics used today derive from chemicals produced by microbes to defend themselves or to attack other microorganisms.
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Seeing microbes and dust motes and the millions of confused migratory birds hovering over the 9/11 lights.
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They also affect the millions of microbes living in our digestive tract that are crucial for human health.
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Orphan studies anaerobic microbes—organisms that don't require oxygen for respiration—in methane seeps on deep ocean floors.
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While the study doesn't prove pets directly prevent allergies or obesity or demonstrate how cats and dogs cause changes in gut bacteria, it's possible that pet exposure during pregnancy may influence the composition of gut microbes in the infant by affecting the mother's vaginal or skin microbes, Kozyrskyj said by email.
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Different research teams pan in water bodies for the microbes in disparate locations and send Chan what they collect.
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Now, sneezing can spread disease, by releasing microbes suspended in tiny droplets of mucus and saliva into the air.
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Preliminary evidence suggests some microbes and tiny animals like tardigrades (pictured) can survive exposure to the vacuum of space.
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This may sound similar to, but is nothing like vaccines, weakened microbes used to train the body's immune system.
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"What if you could take microbes from Q-Tip or Questlove and make a record from it?" he said.
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As the microbes warm up, they break down material faster, which in turn releases more CO2 into the atmosphere.
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It accumulates billions of microbes as it wends through the digestive system, and even more once it lands outside.
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That scientists don't yet know which microbes affect weight yet doesn't matter; diet fads do not wait for science.
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Scientists have suggested various causes of this catastrophe, from methane-spewing microbes to volcanic eruptions that acidified the oceans.
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But to date, microbes haven't been unequivocally found inhabiting the combination — a simultaneously hot, hypersaline and hyper-acidic realm.
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As the seed sprouts, it takes in the microbes around it, incorporating them into an internal environment, Perry said.
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The research is still early, and it's hard to say exactly what role these microbes play in women's health.
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With that out of the way, he repeatedly lathered himself in the saline solution full of his friend's microbes.
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Those early cells would have used hydrogen as an energy source (some modern microbes can perform the same trick).
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Other scientists are looking at how different types of farming affect the microbes found in milk — and therefore, cheese.
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In fact, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, some microbes use perchlorates in the soil as an energy source.
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That's not unusual, but these microbes, of the genus Phormidesmis, are doing it by making particles that melt glaciers.
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Hence, the funny outfits: we have to keep all our resident microbes on our skin and clothes to ourselves.
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Enter Geltor, which is using fermentation to essentially reverse engineer collagen—and its byproduct gelatin—from microbes like bacteria.
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Competition among the remaining microbes becomes more fierce as a result, which isn't good for the ecosystem's overall health.
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The Mars500 research tested how a spacecraft's containment affects its microbes, not space-driven factors like weightlessness or radiation.
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"One thing that sets lichen apart from all other symbioses is that all the components are microbes," Spribille said.
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Another mind boggling thought: perhaps Dione and Enceladus have been exchanging alien microbes for hundreds of millions of years.
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The drugs, which previously would have cured people of an infection, are no longer effective in killing the microbes.
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Essentially, the widespread use of antibiotics -- in both humans and animals -- has helped microbes evolve to become resistant. 4.
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San Francisco-based Zymergen is also using machine learning and robotics to manipulate microbes en masse into making materials.
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One is that the population models in these studies apply only to asexual organisms like bacteria and other microbes.
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Still, these studies that suggest that microbes can directly affect what you want to eat come from animal models.
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The space agency could inspect the microbes for a tell-tale sign of Earthly origins: double helix genetic material.
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And research is making it strikingly clear that these microbes wield a formidable level of control over our lives.
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I/O is working to contain this process, speeding it up by weeks through the use of special microbes.
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All the movement can even create tiny tears in the skin where microbes can nest and breed, Blatt says.
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In the thawed soil, the iron-reducing microbes had been largely replaced by others using organic carbon for food.
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Just as Centralia has attracted plenty of oddball microbes, it has also attracted weirdos of the more bipedal variety.
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By splicing the plant's genes into yeast, the researchers have turned the microbes into tiny CBD and THC factories.
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It's comfortable like cotton, but it pulls sweat away from the skin and resists the microbes that cause odor.
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Animals like cows and sheep and most plant-eating mammals rely on microbes to digest the food they eat.
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If they do exist, they might be microbes without mouths, or space dolphins that don't use technology to communicate.
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Sonia Shah explains how human missteps can mesh with biological happenstance to turn harmless microbes into global disease monsters.
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Given the likelihood of a human colony to spread microbes, does that put a stop to Musk's Mars ambitions?
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Worse yet, malicious actors might build disease-causing microbes with features strategically tailored to thwart existing health security measures.
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Unsurprisingly, oral germs were found on poles at mouth level, and microbes that infest the skin on hand grips.
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As polar seas melt, their fragile ecosystems are infected with invasive microbes that are brought over with the current.
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The ancient fossils exhibit a few key signs that microbes were tinkering with the sedimentary environment, and therefore living.
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It's more likely a diverse community of thousands of different types of microbes working together can provide health benefits.
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Interestingly, the runners also had developed different gut microbes than the dieters, even though they ate the same food.
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The new species include microbes, plants, animals and even the confirmation of an extinct marsupial, based on its fossil.
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The hope is that some of these microbes might yield new antibiotics that can be turned into new medicines.
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Research is moving beyond simple measures of nitrogen and phosphorus content to look at the microbes in the soil.
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"Ever since Fleming discovered penicillin, we've been in the mind-set that we need to kill microbes," Quave says.
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This used to mean that it was nearly impossible to map the genomes of the termite's wood-eating microbes.
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If you're drinking any bacteria-based beverage, you might (understandably) worry about whether the microbes you're drinking are benign.
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Crispr describes a series of DNA sequences discovered in microbes, part of a system to defend against attacking viruses.
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Microbes have evolved several different lines of defense against viruses, some of which are only now coming to light.
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Another potential strategy would be to breed crops that do a better job of summoning the microbes they need.
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Experiments have already revealed that various strains of wheat and apples attract different combinations of microbes to their roots.
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A 2013 study even showed that microbes in the atmosphere contribute to precipitation levels and cloud formation on Earth.
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Nor do they know if those microbes take up residence in the gut microbiome or elsewhere in the body.
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Scientists set out to study the marine viral community, its diversity, and its function, especially how it impacts microbes.
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SpaceX will need to try to pick a place where those microbes will wreak the least havoc on Mars.
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Pale and blind, the two-inch-long fish feeds on microbes and organic matter growing on the cave walls.
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So even if you're moving into a new room, those old microbes will soon be replaced with your own.
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We know microbes are important to plants, but we only know how or why in a few use cases.
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There are just a lot of different ways in which microbes can alter different aspects of a plant's physiology.
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There are just a lot of different ways in which microbes can alter different aspects of a plant's physiology.
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In November 2015, researchers showed that risperidone, an antipsychotic drug, altered the gut microbes of mice who received it.
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 384th birthday of Dutch tradesman Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first human to observe microbes.
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These insights may let doctors develop safer, more effective methods to use microbes to treat a range of diseases.
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These bacteria, viruses and other microbes are responsible for 700,000 deaths a year, according to a 2014 British study.
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There, they collected water from hot springs, whose source of water from far below should carry up underground microbes.
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A. Almost certainly not, because of how diseases spread and how long most microbes can survive on dry surfaces.
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Perhaps the microbes on the first set of plastic kept those added compounds from reaching the corals as swiftly.
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Perhaps shifts in the microbes that live within us have somehow made us more easily sensitized by tick bite.
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A study by American and Swiss researchers found that toy ducks appeared to be a breeding ground for microbes.
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"Climate change is tilting the balance, disrupting natural ecosystems and giving more of an advantage to microbes," he said.
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Basics For "simple" single-celled organisms, microbes often can seem as civic-minded as an Amish barn-raising crew.
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This is likely due to a shift in the communication between the intestine and its resident microbes, Segal says.
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Vannika says Solein is "completely" disconnected from agriculture: The soil microbes used only require collection from natural land once.
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His attitude was: If you have found some prehistoric microbes, how could you not put them in your mouth?
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Some researchers have speculated that electroactive microbes may help regulate the chemistry of both the oceans and the atmosphere.
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Her newest innovation: Anti-Pollution Drops, made with "an interesting new compound produced by marine microbes," Dr. Sturm says.
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More intriguing, perhaps, is that bacteria are not the most abundant microbes that live in and on our bodies.
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She says it ensures that the microbes she values, the ones she wants in the vinegars, are thriving nearby.
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If nutrients run low, the microbes enter a dormant stage and focus the little energy they have on maintenance.
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Dr. Cryan and other scientists were beginning to find hints that these microbes could influence the brain and behavior.
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Antibiotic-resistant microbes, known as superbugs, are pinballing around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.
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It reads like a collection of murder mysteries because it is just that, but with microbes as the murderers.
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Dr. Yolken and colleagues recently explored this idea with a different tool: probiotics, microbes thought to improve immune function.
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Alcohol alters the number of microbes in the gut microbiome, a community of microorganisms that affect the immune system.
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Any food that has moisture and isn't frozen can grow microbes that break the food down, packaging or not.
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The high level of alcohol kills germs quickly and the solution is 99.9% effective in killing the contagious microbes.
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Science has shown that as we age, the types and amount of microbes found in the gut are reduced.
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Her newest exhibit, Community of Microbes, highlights eight invisible, microscopic communities in a wonderful celebration of color and science.
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I'll do something like Community of Microbes where there's no painting or really big welding steel kind of structure.
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At the same time, microbes in wetland soils release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they consume organic matter.
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While far-UVC light can destroy microbes, it cannot penetrate even the dead cell layer of our skin's surface.
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The researchers found the largest diversity of microbes — several hundred types — roughly 160 to 330 feet away from Anona.
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But countless microbes survive in house dust or cling to the surfaces of things like computer screens and pillowcases.
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"From day zero to day 365, there's microbes from the beginning that have not completely bounced back," says Jordan.
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One of these defenses is known as endothermy, which keeps our bodies warm, protecting us from potentially harmful microbes.
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"Most people in the US have non-diverse microbes and they could definitely improve their gut health," Spector said.
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And humans inherit our first large dollop of microbes from our mothers as we pass through the birth canal.
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This microscopic battle of the microbes may seem like part of another world, with little connection to human life.
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We're talking about microbes, either the ones inhabiting seas and swamps, or those that live inside creatures like us.
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One of their key features is a wall-mounted air-purification filter that aims to reduce allergens and microbes.
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Microbes are drawing upon this natural bank of resistance today to fend off the best drugs devised by humans.
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He didn't know he was killing microbes — he just knew that the more heat and less air, the better.
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Nearly 50 years ago, researchers began a study examining how a high-sugar diet affected gut microbes in rats.
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Those microbes serve as some of the first critical pieces of the immune systems that keep her offspring alive.
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"Foundational to our approach is that it's not which microbes are present in your gut… It's based on looking at what specific microbes can do to a healthy individual to improve that status of health independent of what is already present," Dhir said in an interview around the company's launch last June.
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Using 1,631 body samples from 18 different sites in women and 15 in men, they determined which species make up individual microbiomes on the body (say, the microbes that live in your stomach versus the ones that live in your nostril) and how these microbes communicate with human cells and with each other.
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Dangerous microbes would be discarded, while only the "most productive" microbes would be included for future missions, as the authors write:If humanity is seriously contemplating colonizing Mars, another planet or one of the nearby moons in the future, then people need to identify, understand and send the most competitive and beneficial pioneers.
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So this molecule could serve as a major food source for any microbes that may be lurking in Enceladus' waters.
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But the agency didn't want to risk Cassini accidentally crashing into one of these moons and spreading around Earth microbes.
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In 2013, analysis of a rock sample collected by the vehicle showed that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Thermophilic or heat-loving microbes then metabolize the remains, maintaining an internal temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit within the vessel.
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Other microbes have lived in stasis for millions of years and could be brought back to life in the lab.
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After landing, these microbes would "infect" our planet with their DNA, and begin life anew in, literally, an alien environment.
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A team at Northwestern University is tinkering with a filter capable of capturing more particulates and perhaps even harmful microbes.
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They can simultaneously fend off rot microbes from their cache of Gerber brand carrion, and protect themselves from hungry wildlife.
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While we've found direct evidence of liquid water on the Red Planet, we have yet to find any microbes there.
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These clones contained libraries, a living repository for all the genomes of all the microbes found in a particular environment.
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The science behind antibiotic-resistant infections is straightforward enough: Microbes exposed to antibiotics can and will develop defenses against them.
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In order for a sanitizer to be effective, it has to reduce a certain amount of microbes from a surface.
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Just as microbes played a role in transmitting disease, she suspected they had to have something to do with decomposition.
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Patients picked up organisms already present in their rooms before their arrival, but over time, their own microbes took over.
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This, says Dr Krajmalnik-Brown, suggests the children's guts have become healthy environments that can recruit beneficial microbes by themselves.
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"We're living in essentially an ocean of microbes, and it's important we get surrounded by the right guys," she says.
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A unique environment So why are the microbes living in what looks like a giant puddle of rosé so exciting?
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In some environments, microbes will actively trigger mineral formation, but that doesn't seem to be the case at El Tatio.
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The technique involves testing DNA extracts from microbes found in rock samples and comparing them to DNA extracted from oil.
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Other firms are focusing their efforts even more precisely, by selecting and delivering only the microbes they believe are beneficial.
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Some of the programs provided are purely educational, allowing students to measure the microbes and record observations of their behavior.
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Kids can use the microbes to play soccer (above), or move it around in a Pac-Man-like maze (below).
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Scientists also hope to understand how microbes munch on rock, which will reveal how microbial populations help shape our environment.
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GIF: Schmidt Ocean InstituteBut the team was visiting for more than just microbes—they discovered incredibly geological formations as well.
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That is to say, gut microbes from a previously obese mouse were enough to make a lean mouse get fat.
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And if you took chocolate-eating microbes and transplanted them into another animal, that animal would start craving chocolate too.
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"This was a fully expected observation, since we are all constantly exposed to many microbes," said Harvard geneticist George Church.
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Compost has to be regularly "fluffed," or aerated, Wick explained, to prevent anaerobic microbes from producing methane and nitrous oxide.
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Chronic illnesses like allergies, asthma, Celiac disease and type 1 diabetes are thought to be a result of lost microbes.
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The scientists suspect that the sponges, corals and other creatures at the site could rely upon the microbes for food.
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We need to understand what these chemicals are and what are they doing to our bodies and to our microbes.
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However, in the past decade population biologists have made considerable progress in documenting how radioactivity affects plants, animals and microbes.
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Unfortunately, just as often, they treated microbes as a threat to be suppressed, killing off helpful bacteria in equal number.
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The structures consist of conical waves of sediment deposited by ancient microbes for protection and shelter in shallow water environments.
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He grew cultures out of all three, nothing that while he took precautions he didn't think the microbes were dangerous.
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And previous studies have found that Russian homes harbor a richer and more diverse community of microbes than Finnish ones.
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The first method extrapolates from the available data for microbes, based not on individual organisms but on samples of DNA.
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By contrast, good microbes in our mouths check the growth of harmful germs, ultimately paving the way to better health.
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In a series of art experiments, they watched the microbes lighting up like color-clad ravers dancing under black light.
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The salt in sweat causes corrosion that blocks the deposited microbes from the copper, so frequent cleaning is called for.
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Save it for your cheese and crudité plates, lest you want it crawling with all sorts of pathogen-laden microbes.
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Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes, and as many as 37 trillion cells.
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In very rare cases, severe infestations of some ant species have been found to spread disease-causing microbes in hospitals.
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Microbes from farm animals, carried into the home, could be a clue to stopping asthma in children, scientists have found.
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The condition is caused by microbes like bacteria or fungus that get inside hair follicles in the skin, causing infection.
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But research by P'ng Loke also indicates that they commandeer the microbiota, the community of microbes in the intestinal tract.
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It contains chemicals that reduce the microbes in the cows' stomachs that cause them to burp when they eat grass.
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And so, the microbes that are trying to break down all that nitrogen need some carbon to balance it out.
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They also said that in the past, wads of microbes and other matter repeatedly clogged up the devices' watering system.
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They did this to avoid contaminating Enceladus or Titan, another nearby moon that could also harbor life, with Earthly microbes.
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A garlic extract fed to cows also has been researched as a way to alter methane-producing microbes in cattle.
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In Europe, women exposed to these microbes while pregnant have been found to have the least allergic kids of all.
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Heat-loving microbes like Strain 121, however, would die of cold if exposed to a human body at 37°C.
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The mice with the microbes from malnourished children failed to grow and were less healthy over all, the scientists found.
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But vehicles that go to Mars often carry thousands of Earth microbes over with them, despite scientists' best sterilization efforts.
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But another group of microbes—albeit with some similarities to the oil-eaters—eventually became the focus of Orphan's career.
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Studies have shown that probiotics, the living microbes that hang out in your digestive tract, effectively treat many skin conditions.
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"We're interested in the microbes inside your home," Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado, told me.
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Despite humans' use of microbes in agriculture for thousands of years, what companies like Indigo are doing is fairly new.
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Mice that got microbes from an obese twin gained weight; the others remained lean, despite eating the exact same diet.
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The microbes he's studying seem to be potent antifungal agents, which could be used to treat yeast infections in humans.
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Many brewers believe such a bucolic setting is more than a romantic image; it's essential for finding the right microbes.
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The microbes that cause these diseases are increasingly resistant, and sometimes even impervious, to antibiotics that worked in the past.
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Other scientists contended that this must be a mistake, merely surface microbes on the drill that had contaminated the sample.
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Researchers were able to detect the bacteria through microbes extracted from the remaining blood vessels within the Baroque artist's teeth.
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What we're really focused on is creating a nutrient solution that's going into the soil and helping the soil microbes.
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There's a good chance that a combination of radiation and extreme temperature has killed the microbes in the jett bags.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but these microbes are in our homes, cars and grocery stores.
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Electroactive microbes are so abundant, in fact, that researchers now suspect that they have a profound impact on the planet.
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It prefers hardwoods — oak or elm — which it chews and excretes as sawdust for microbes to break it down further.
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Soap molecules are designed to break up that oil into smaller drops, loosening up any sticky microbes in the process.
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That's because the deep freeze of the permafrost doesn't just keep carbon from escaping — it keeps microbes intact as well.
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Go deeper: Deciphering the role microbiomes may play in human health and disease As seasons change, so do gut microbes
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That might be even stronger when combined with an antibiotic called azithromycin, which may combat opportunistic microbes in the lungs.
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Because N20043s block the vast majority of particles that try to pass through them, they are formidable barriers against microbes.
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Although surgical masks are not tightly sealed like N95s, the filters they contain are still a major impediment to microbes.
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But the inconsistency of randomized trials does not negate the robust physical evidence that masks block respiratory droplets and microbes.
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Hesse, who was married to a German scientist, suggested growing microbes in agar, which her grandmother used in pudding recipes.
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Before the discovery of Prometheoarchaeum, some researchers suspected that the ancestors of eukaryotes lived as predators, swallowing up smaller microbes.
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Those microbes may turn out to be even closer to our own ancestry — and may offer even more unexpected clues.
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"Raw milk is likely to be contaminated with dangerous microbes that cannot be smelled, seen, or tasted," she told Insider.
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Recently in Mexico, scientists woke up microbes that were dormant for as long as 50,000 years in giant gypsum crystals.
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Still, Dr. Yu said a capsule containing a cocktail of beneficial microbes is never going to be a silver bullet.
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Records of ancient microbes, like those found in glacier ice, give scientists a glimpse into Earth's evolutionary and climate history.
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The nanowires could feed electrical currents to microbes and create butanol, a fuel more functionally similar to gasoline than ethanol.
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There are imbalances in the various microbes in your gut that lead some people to extract more calories from food.
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One dream for the company is to coin new infectious diseases, as it is already finding signals from unknown microbes.
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"We found microbes adapted to high salt levels, similar to what may be expected in the Martian subsurface," Pointing said.
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The beneficial microbes can be applied as a liquid or powder coating to seeds (a standard process in agriculture already).
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Then comes breast milk, which contains special sugars we can't digest, but which selectively feed certain microbes in our gut.
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Dr. Woodruff was instrumental in isolating two microbes that, while effective against tuberculosis and other infections, proved toxic to humans.
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"One is the breakdown of the infrastructure as a whole, which brings more microbes into the environment," Dr. Smith said.
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In particular, they noted widespread increases in certain microbes that can help to produce substances called short-chain fatty acids.
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And exposing young kids to pets, gardens, and other safe sources of immune-boosting microbes also seems to be beneficial.
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Their task includes experimenting on the microbes in space, seeking to expose any dangers, sensibly, before setting them loose on Earth.
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Melillo says these phases suggest microbes in the soil are "reorganizing" their genetic material to adapt to the changing soil temperatures.
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Imagine two types of microbes, A and B: When the abundance of A is high, the abundance of B is low.
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Perhaps most important, with Liu's method, researchers don't need to presuppose a model of what the interactions among microbes might be.
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Similar structures exist in today's oceans, where communities of microbes and bloody-looking tube worms blossom around sunless, black-smoking chimneys.
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Now, most of us understand that there's thousands of different microbes in our gut that are super beneficial for our health.
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The Skokie, Illinois-based company uses microbes and carbon-rich waste gases — including those from the steel industry — to make ethanol.
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Yes, there are microbes everywhere and most are just fine for us, perhaps even beneficial to our microbiomes and immune systems.
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This ancient wet climate may have made it possible for alien life, like tiny microbes, to survive on Mars long ago.
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But LanzaTech wants to go even further by introducing modified microbes into its reactors that yield a wide variety of chemicals.
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But developing such treatments could allow scientists to harness the power of the human body's own resident microbes in preventing disease.
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Since the sinkers move much faster, microbes have less time to nibble away at their cargo before they reach the bottom.
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There are also models of sample tubes planned for the upcoming Mars2020 mission, to investigate whether microbes ever lived on Mars. .
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For some people, the idea of engineering microbes to produce vaccines or synthetic fragrances and flavors raises a lot of questions.
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Other microbes may not preserve well, or might not be present in the blood at high enough levels to be detected.
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An infant's first exposure to microbes may educate the early immune system to recognize friend from foe, Dr. Dominguez-Bello said.
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Currently, scientists see synthetic genomics as a way to build novel microbes and animals, but the same principle applies to humans.
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And the flowing water also raises the odds that microbes or other life was transported into the region and got trapped.
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He told me over the phone that microbes in space are also more resistant to antibiotics and better at infecting hosts.
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Cows expel large quantities of methane and the flooded soils of rice paddies are homes for microbes that produce the gas.
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Microbes are suspected of playing a role in many aspects of human life, ranging from beneficial immune support to debilitating diseases.
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Both US and South Korean intelligence are said to believe the North Koreans have "experimented" with anthrax, cholera, and plague microbes.
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There, microbes don't receive energy from sunlight, but use methanogenesis, a process that reduces carbon dioxide with hydrogen, to form methane.
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They also found differences in the way microbes interacted with the rest of the body between healthy and pre-diabetic individuals.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can't stop microbes from mutating and becoming resistant to even our strongest drugs.
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He has analyzed the microbes in his gut, his nose, his mouth and his skin more than 600 times, he estimates.
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Microbes serve to defend against disease and strengthen the immune system, so disease prevention is a natural fit for microbiome innovation.
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ON SEPTEMBER 21st in New York all 193 UN member states agreed to tackle the growing resistance of microbes to antibiotics.
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Rather, it's bacterial diversity, and it's a healthy balance of all the microbes — yes, even the ones with a bad reputation.
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We aren't sure why there is a jump in the diversity of chemicals when there are fewer types of microbes present.
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We're told the microbes in the soil degraded any DNA to the point it was impossible to get a meaningful result.
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In fact, you don't have the enzymes to digest most plants, but the microbes in your gut do that for you.
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Just by sequencing the DNA of microbes in an environment, they could find out what lived there and in what quantity.
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Whether the town will be able to demonstrate the kind of resilience shown by its local microbes remains to be seen.
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Island Water tech developed a solar-powered wastewater infrastructure that's self-powered, self-controlled and monitored by — wait for it — microbes.
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By covering a radius, microbes respond to music, chaotically extending its surface to generate chaotically concrete shapes reminiscent of human bodies.
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Ultimately, the company says it collected data on over 40,000 symbiotic microbes from 36,000 samples of more than 700 plant species.
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The bad news was, after a few days, my gut microbes had virtually returned to where they were before the trip.
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When Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the late 17th-century drape maker turned amateur scientist, first described microbes, people thought he was crazy.
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Researchers will start with simpler organisms, such as microbes and plants, but hope to ultimately create strands of human genetic code.
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Stool is the end product of our gut metabolizing our food, and it consists of non-absorbed material, microbes, and water.
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But Dr. Knip's hunch is that children growing up in Russian Karelia early on encounter microbes that are absent in Finland.
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Three years ago the CDC produced a list of 2800 antibiotic-resistant microbes that threaten the health of Americans (see table).
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When fears of a contaminated-armrest death creep up, just contemplate the many millions of microbes that sheathe any human body.
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The microbes appeared to favor "Crystallize" by Lindsey Stirling, an American violinist, but they weren't big fans of Kanye West's "Heartless."
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Your dying immune system can no longer contain the trillions of hungry microbes that normally help digest the food you eat.
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But after the microbes are through eating those organs, that bile starts to flood the body, staining it a yellow-green.
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Two years after adding the seed meal to the orchards, the scientists found that the ecology of the microbes had changed.
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The microbes NASA found are called hydrogenotrophs, and they produce a flavorless, pale-brown powder that is about 80 percent protein.
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The company uses naturally occurring microbes instead of genetic modifications or chemicals to help plants survive and grow in rough conditions.
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Indigo Agriculture's beneficial microbes can be applied as a liquid or powder coating to seeds (a standard process in agriculture already).
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When the researchers then transplanted microbes from a human alcoholic without liver disease to the same mice, the liver lesions improved.
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Hints have turned up in how the brain responds to external stimuli and how microbes respond to chemicals in their environments.
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A new study published in Science found that shift in diet changes the types ad abundance of microbes in their gut.
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The microbes are meddlesome when they cause bad breath but can be deadly if they're breathed into the lungs, or aspirated.
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Along with terrestrial and aquatic plants, the soil microbes that decompose organic matter are major players in the global carbon cycle.
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The ISS may seem like a cold, sterile place in space, but the analysis showed it's a veritable cornucopia for microbes.
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Researchers then analyzed that poop to generate a comprehensive look at how intestinal microbes interact with human behavior and general health.
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The two doctors checked her white blood cell count, an indicator of immune activity in response to microbes in the blood.
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In 203, for example, scientists found hundreds of microbes that were able to live half-a-mile under the Antarctic ice.
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Microbes spread lighting fast, so by not washing, he'll be toting around stuff that can get himself or other people sick.
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But you can definitely argue that the results they show are indeed a manipulation of the host behavior by the microbes.
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"We need to accept that we are not only 'us' but also the microbes we have in our gut," Ribeiro says.
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"There are just a lot of different ways in which microbes can alter different aspects of a plant's physiology," Beattie said.
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Scientists are still uncovering how the microbes first observed by Leeuwenhoek interact with human cells to help and harm our bodies.
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The study looked at bacteria and other microbes in various ecosystems, including harsh ones like high-elevation areas or frozen tundras.
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With the newest data, it turned out there was a wider community of primary producer microbes, eating nitrogen and sulfur compounds.
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Species everywhere are full of microbes, but if they stay in the bodies in which they've evolved, they don't cause disease.
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Alcohol is effective at killing different types of microbes, including both viruses and bacteria, because it unfolds and inactivates their proteins.
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And if our microbes from Earth take a liking to Mars and spread, there may be no way to undo that.
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But it's just one of many mysterious microbes living in a massive subterranean habitat that until recently has been practically invisible.
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Many of the world's leading medical institutions struggle with resistant microbes and Kijabe, one of Kenya's best hospitals, is no different.
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Through directed evolution, Dr. Arnold's lab has generated microbes that do what organisms in nature have never been known to do.
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One 2010 analysis found that a US note contains 10 bacterial microbes per square centimeter, higher than Australia or New Zealand.
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Ideally, the coating would be applied with a 3D printer to allow soldiers to readily produce militarized microbes in the field.
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"It's just speculation at this point," said Marc Habash, who researches microbes in biosolids at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
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Dr. Schnorr eventually extracted DNA from microbes inside 27 Hadza and compared them with samples gathered from people in Bologna, Italy.
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Instead, some robotic probe might find evidence of teeny tiny microbes on Jupiter's moon Europa or some place close to home.
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And they were presumably better off for it: Their microbes could extract more calories from what they ate, better nourishing them.
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Similar breakthroughs followed, but the threat of microbes developing resistance to these wonder drugs has been a concern from the beginning.
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That makes sense based on the age of the shipwreck, Dr. Hamdan said, since the structure is providing resources to microbes.
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Could icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus in the outer solar system be home to microbes or other forms of alien life?
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Still, she said, though houses are cleaner, the built environment contains many components, including chemicals and airborne particles, not just microbes.
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The problem is, our atmosphere has changed a lot since the ancient Egyptians were baking, and microbes have changed with it.
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In fact, some surmise that the need to share probiotic microbes could have partly driven the emergence of sociality in animals.
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He has also studied other extremophiles, such as microbes that thrive in the acidic iron-rich Río Tinto in southwestern Spain.
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