In other words, there are numerous microorganisms in nature that infect animals -- and some of these same microorganisms infect humans.
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These live microorganisms are akin to the valuable microorganisms already residing in our bodies, a vast ecosystem of microbial species, including bacteria and yeast.
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Well-fed worms are happy because they eat microorganisms—and will then produce six times more microorganisms in the final stage of terra preta production, during the worm composting.
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Ethanol has been shown to exert an antimicrobial effect on some microorganisms; however, the typical alcohol (ethanol) concentration of beer is too low to have much effect on microorganisms.
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Milk that comes from cows is normally packed with microorganisms.
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Corals, mollusks, and marine microorganisms all precipitate calcium carbonate shells.
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Microorganisms may have traveled between Mars and Earth on meteorites.
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Although less well known, microorganisms can also be bred selectively.
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He inherited a microscope from his grandfather and studied microorganisms.
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After use, these natural plastics are easily degraded by microorganisms.
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Her expertise is in "microorganisms in subsurface environments," according to NASA.
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Stromatolites are sedimentary formations created by the layered growth of microorganisms.
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Waste-eating microorganisms are put to work in almost every city.
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Stromatolites are the sedimentary formations created by microorganisms growing in layers.
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If that's not possible, you can use bleach to kill microorganisms.
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Cathode-ray tubes contain lead, which can poison an ecosystem's microorganisms.
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More carbon is stored in the ground through organic matter and microorganisms.
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The more heavily used a bar is, the more microorganisms it holds.
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Using sunlight, plants and microorganisms take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen.
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I can imagine that device is a planet of microorganisms suffering from overpopulation.
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The company's focus is on microbes, the tiny microorganisms that help plants grow.
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The team is engineering strains of microorganisms to produce industrial enzymes at scale.
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These features were located near fossilized microbial mats (layered sheets of fossilized microorganisms).
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DasSarma has studied one of these microorganisms and created the Purple Earth hypothesis.
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There are microorganisms on Earth that are capable of surviving even in ice.
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That's why wet towels, loofahs, and kitchen sponges are also havens for microorganisms.
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It's often the marine microorganisms consumed by the fish that produce those nutrients.
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A nondescript but critical crust of living microorganisms protects the surface from erosion.
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The alcohol killed many of the microorganisms you'd find in your local watering hole.
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A bright blue streak flashed before the bricks disappeared altogether, the microorganisms now unconscious.
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He hoped the wild microorganisms living on the petals would produce unique, tangy flavors.
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The laser detects the movement of living microorganisms skating all over last night's meatloaf.
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But most environmental microbes cannot be cultured this way, and especially not cave microorganisms.
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It's a pretty term for the mixture of microorganisms that make up the microbiome.
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The Breathing Shoe has a biologically active shoe material that is home to microorganisms.
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Long overlooked, these microorganisms are increasingly recognized as being crucial to our overall health.
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Check out those microorganisms or whatever other gross thing you're looking at up-close.
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Let's say, as a hypothetical, that Mars was once habitable and home to simple microorganisms.
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Each has a specialty — Ginkgo focuses on developing scents and flavors using microorganisms, for instance.
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The limits to alien life may differ from those imposed on our own world's microorganisms.
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How the presence in three-month-olds of particular microorganisms protects against asthma remains unknown.
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Incredibly, the information imprinted onto these microorganisms can be passed down to the next generation.
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Incredibly, half of of the DNA in these microorganisms matched nothing in the scientific literature.
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Literally the smallest living things: Microbes and microorganisms, and how they behave all around us.
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Ginkgo Bioworks and Novozymes also work with larger companies to make crazy materials using microorganisms.
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On top of that, the organic matter in permafrost is a tasty meal for microorganisms.
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Many are produced by genetic engineering or made from microorganisms or human or animal cells.
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Wells contaminated by bacteria or hazardous microorganisms can be blasted with chlorine and other disinfectants.
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Microorganisms on rovers or landers could eventually be dispersed across the planet by dust storms.
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This shampoo contains both eliminates and prevents the growth of disease-causing microorganisms and bacteria.
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These findings support the possibility of interplanetary transfer of microorganisms within meteorites, the review concluded.
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That's the mini-ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms living on the body.
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The conventional theory is that they are weapons, deployed in a primeval struggle among microorganisms.
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The sulfuric acid is produced by microorganisms that break down hydrogen sulfide in rocks and soil.
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From a disease point of view, this makes it very hard for microorganisms (bugs) to survive.
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The use of genetically engineered microorganisms for bioremediation – the biological cleanup of toxic wastes – is one.
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During this fermentation time, microorganisms multiply, then it's time to call the worms in for dinner.
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"This helps us understand how microorganisms evolved and modified our atmosphere throughout Earth's history," he said.
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It's improbable that a few hairs would harbor enough harmful microorganisms to affect the gastrointestinal system.
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Today's study shows the rest adds to that, by identifying more organs where these microorganisms live.
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Humans have microbiomes, with over 100 trillion microorganisms that live in our gut, mouth, and skin.
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Bioremediation — the introduction of microorganisms to clean up pollutants — is another area of opportunity, said Boyle.
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MICROBIOME INTERLOPERS (HIGHEST): Microorganisms inhabit our guts, mouths, and skin and help us in many ways.
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They're also pretty cool scientists who know how to have fun while researching microorganisms' hunting habits.
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Diffusion "kills microorganisms in the air which helps stop the spread of sickness," the pamphlet read.
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Each challenge involves a microbiome — the world of microorganisms within an environment — that's out of whack.
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Most viruses (and other microorganisms) are simply digested in the mosquito gut along with the blood.
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Surely, this now raises the possibility that, at the very least, Little Green Microorganisms dwell there.
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Cryptobiotic soil is thousands-of-years-old microorganisms, grafted-together memory packages of currents and conditions.
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What it's done is bioengineer microorganisms — specifically yeast — to manufacture cannabinoids out of plain-old sugars.
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Through teamwork and constant chemical communication, microorganisms shape the world on which we macro-organisms preen.
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Researchers propose a new explanation involving fungal microorganisms who have found a nice place to live.
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One of the main challenges is modifying the microorganisms to withstand the stressors of the environment.
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They feed on mud flats by sifting the sediment through their mouth parts and eating microorganisms.
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It can take several months to calibrate the mix of microorganisms that will break down organics.
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The microbiota part of VMT specifically refers to the microorganisms in our bodies, such as bacteria.
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But unlike a petroleum-based plastic, it can be fully degraded by microorganisms in composting systems.
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A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms found 1.4 kilometers down in an African gold mine.
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Soap's chemistry helps remove microorganisms from our hands by accentuating the slippery properties of our own skin.
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It is not, despite what it sounds like, made using actually spiders, but with genetically-modified microorganisms.
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After a few days, the microorganisms in the mixture produce layers of cellulose on top of it.
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Desperate to find new medicines against pathogenic microorganisms, scientists are turning to Crispr, the gene-editing tool.
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The idea that [microorganisms like] Methanobrevibacter smithii or Prevotella will make you a better performer is ridiculous.
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Diagrams suggest that the Bioo system generates energy by processing microorganisms expelled by the plant's root system.
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Failing that, we could alway design artificial microorganisms that can hunt down and destroy problematic bacteria. 8.
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Ginkgo's automated "foundry" speeds up the time to develop the strains of microorganisms for producing an enzyme.
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But until the work of Louis Pasteur in the mid-19th century nobody knew that microorganisms existed.
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Fermentation, when microorganisms grow on and break down food, can make that food item rich with probiotics.
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As bad as the debris may be, the more insidious fear is the sewage and harmful microorganisms.
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Your microbiome is the word used to describe the the trillions of microorganisms living in your body.
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Now his studio is crowded with models of deadly microorganisms that were slated for since-postponed exhibitions.
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Among that sediment was cyanobacteria, microorganisms capable of photosynthesis and an important player in the nitrogen cycle.
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Each square centimeter of skin hosts between one million and one billion microorganisms, according to the study.
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"Life as we know it cannot exist without beneficial microorganisms," said Lopez in an NSU press release.
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Opinion Are you attracted to her, or to the teeming community of microorganisms living in her gut?
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As people age, their microorganisms change, and these noisome elements can result in a less toothsome brew.
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Humans play the short game, bulldozing over microorganisms that started life millions of years before we did.
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It means we may be able to create whole new species of microorganisms for industrial or scientific purposes.
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The FDA will now require that all stool samples used in transplants be tested for drug-resistant microorganisms.
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For example, it revealed more about the microorganisms present in modern humans that are actually shared with Neanderthals.
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It could even be equipped with an array of sensors, including an instrument that can identify living microorganisms.
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But microorganisms are quick to evolve, and many have developed defenses against the methods devised to kill them.
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Women's reproductive organs are home to plenty of microorganisms, and identifying them may help us improve women's health.
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In fact, in certain Chilean hot springs, opaline silica precipitates out of water in the presence of microorganisms.
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What CB Therapeutics has done is bioengineer microorganisms — specifically yeast — to manufacture cannabinoids out of plain-old sugars.
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Turns out, the gut microbiome is that complex community of microorganisms that live inside of our digestive tracts.
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The fatty oil supposedly attracts those microorganisms to it, which you can then spit out all at once.
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Evans' work here feels alive, conjuring a sense of intimacy with microorganisms in active exchange with one another.
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"Uncollected and deteriorating waste products create rich breeding grounds for microorganisms, insects, and other vermin," the ATA wrote.
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Red tide is caused by a flare of microorganisms, often in summer, that turns the water rust-colored.
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It is meant to alter the trillions-strong population of gastrointestinal microorganisms, quelling inflammation, including skin-related outbreaks.
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A potential candidate is glyoxylate, says Dr. Gillies, which is a molecule that occurs naturally in soil microorganisms.
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Life on Earth is at least 3.5 billion years old, judging by the earliest known fossils of microorganisms.
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Not only did the microorganisms find the meteorite tasty—it turned out that they came back for seconds.
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While many model microorganisms are grown with ease in labs, it takes a village to raise M. sedula.
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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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Like Lunine, NASA astrophysicist Chris McKay isn't surprised by the results, saying he expected methane-producing microorganisms all along.
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When they find it, they lap up the liquid effluent, which contains nutritious microorganisms that the beetles can digest.
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Yes, baths can be petri dishes full of questionable microorganisms, but the human body is up to the challenge.
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Traces of graphite in ancient Canadian rocks were produced by microorganisms 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research.
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Mostly because of the growth of microorganisms, including Legionella, in the water systems that are used in cooling air.
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How can these microorganisms survive at such extreme depths with no access to sunlight and scant traces of water?
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You might have to inoculate with the right types of microorganisms but I think it would definitely be possible.
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The enzyme is released by a group of microorganisms that live inside a special stomach compartment called the rumen.
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Because the ice layer is so thick, the energy that [microorganisms] would get from sunlight would be extraordinarily low.
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"To maintain shelf life, these creams contain preservatives that prevent overgrowth of bacteria and other microorganisms," Dr. Zeichner says.
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But there are nearly 400 pharmaceuticals that are grown from microorganisms, including insulin and the hepatitis b vaccine Recombivax.
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"We need to invest more resources to study this group of relatively unknown microorganisms," he went on to add.
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Flooded homes and buildings filled with standing water can become breeding grounds for all sorts of microorganisms, mold included.
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Metchnikoff had long theorized that the microorganisms in our guts could have beneficial or adverse effects on our health.
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So the scientists suggest that before sending humans to Mars, we should send some microorganisms from Earth there first.
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Photographs of British Algae features 307 blueprint-like cyanotypes of seaweed and aquatic microorganisms captured between 1843 and 1853.
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Playing beer pong like this gives microorganisms lots of opportunities to transfer from various surfaces and onto the ball.
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Bringing a product to market is more complex, with plants, animals and microorganisms all regulated by different governmental bodies.
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The study's authors found that the substance affects only methane-producing microorganisms and not bacteria that helps with digestion.
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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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The composting process employs billions of microorganisms to break down organics into the essential component of soil called humus.
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And documenting such a variety of invisible microorganisms from a single sample is an important advance, Dr. Harbert said.
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A teaspoon of healthy soil holds millions of species, and far more microorganisms than there are people on earth.
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A microbiome is a mini-ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms living on and in the body.
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In his newest book, Smil explores society's obsession with growth through the lens of everything from microorganisms to cities.
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Every human being is colonized by millions of microorganisms in his or her body, including bacteria, viruses, and yeast.
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The issue is that the suits have a layer of chemical-based antimicrobial finish to kill or inhibit some microorganisms.
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As the study shows, these microorganisms can be found farther from the coast and in warmer waters than previously thought.
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Biofilms form when microorganisms collect on a surface, like a scummy rock or the bathtub you keep meaning to clean.
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Problematically, NASA's 2015 Astrobiology Strategy makes scarce mention of viruses, focusing primarily on the search for fully cellular alien microorganisms.
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Algae and halobacteria live in the salt marshes, though those are the only microorganisms found in these extremely salty circumstances.
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Instead, the microorganisms swabbed from the cracks and crevices of the space station had come from outer space, he said.
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It works by targeting an enzyme in plants and some microorganisms known as EPSPS, or 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase.
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That being said, studies have linked kombucha consumption with killing harmful microorganisms, improving liver and kidney function, and weight loss.
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These microorganisms have largely been ignored by researchers until recent initiatives like the US-government funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP).
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This will include kites that produce wind energy, glowing microorganisms, and the Gates of Light, the centerpiece of the project.
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Jordan, the microbiologist, samples the dirt's microorganisms, such as fungi and bacteria, before and after the introduction of pig carcasses.
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Microorganisms, lurking in the gut because their progress was retarded by intestinal stasis, were causing putrefaction and generating odious toxins.
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Adams says the microorganisms would probably manage for a few weeks without light — so just enough time for a family vacation.
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These single-celled microorganisms live in extreme conditions on our planet, in places like hot geysers, the seafloor, and oil wells.
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Many of the microorganisms obtained their energy by oxidizing ammonium or methane, probably from deposits at the bottom of the lake.
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Oldest fossils Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.7 billion years old.
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The ice in Greenland is also getting darker, as soot carried through the air and microorganisms like algae coat the ice.
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I pulled out my phone and searched "human microbiome" to reread Wikipedia's introduction to the trillions of microorganisms currently inside me.
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"Insects are like jungles at the microscopic level—they can carry hundreds of species of microorganisms inside of them," Madden said.
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There are a few microorganisms that can survive at subzero temperatures for long periods of time, by basically going into hibernation.
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"Our results show that this leaves 100,000 times more microorganisms awaiting discovery — and 100 million to be fully explored," Lennon said.
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Some microorganisms have been alive for thousands of years, barely moving except with shifts in the tectonic plates, earthquakes or eruptions.
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But it turns out the eruptions provide enough heat to support "extremophile" microorganisms — life where we didn't think it could exist.
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According to PDI Healthcare, it eliminates over 50 microorganisms, including 17 multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) like MRSA, CRE, and VRE.
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The healthy microorganisms — often referred to as good bacteria — now come in the form of foods, supplements, and even skincare products.
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In contrast with previous research, scientists conducted multiple tests and found that there is no life, not even microorganisms, in Dallol.
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It also irritates the nasal lining, adding to swelling and inflammation; it may also change the balance of microorganisms inside the nose.
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This animal, it's theorized, dug into sediments and microbial mats (layered sheets of microorganisms) in search of food and gulps of oxygen.
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As plants die and decay, he said, microorganisms feeding on them release mercury into the air along with nitrogen and other gases.
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Bacteria are more than just the building blocks of microorganisms in art collective Slavs and Tatars' latest exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
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The lactose is eventually eaten by microorganisms in the large intestine, producing, as byproducts, various gases that cause bloating, cramping and flatulence.
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And now, as described in a new Science paper, it can also be used to turn lowly microorganisms into veritable hard drives.
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These microorganisms were also found farther from shore than ever before—in some cases as far as 300 kilometers (180 miles) offshore.
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That's because there's good reason to be excited about the microbiome, or the trillions of microorganisms that live in and on you.
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Image: Noelle Held/Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPlentiful amounts of oxygen made those early microorganisms obsolete—or at least that's what we thought.
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Aboard the International Space Station, these microorganisms do so well that they form slimy mats, known as biofilms, on the interior surfaces.
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When anaerobic digestion takes place, organic materials – think food waste – are broken down by microorganisms in an oxygen free environment, producing biogas.
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The microorganisms causing the sea to glow in Tasmania might actually be using their light to hunt out food in the dark.
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Also excluded are cultured ingredients — flavorings, vitamins and other food ingredients — that are produced and extracted from engineered microorganisms in fermentation tanks.
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Eye infections, while treatable, can cause permanent damageWearing contacts can expose your eyeballs to many types of microorganisms that can cause infection.
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The team still needs to test whether the effluent will be free of hazardous microorganisms and therefore safe to use as fertilizer.
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Researchers will travel to the world's largest mountain glacier systems, collecting microorganisms from hundreds of glacier-fed streams and analyzing their genomes.
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One promising idea is to use probiotics to replace the microorganisms that cause bad odors with ones that cause more benign smells.
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Harvard researchers collaborated with the Human Microbiome Project, which aims to understand the relationship between human health and this cohort of microorganisms.
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And for years the Egyptian authorities worried that these blotches might be microorganisms fueled by humidity and the sweaty bodies of tourists.
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Payloads typically go through safety certification processes to prevent any harmful microorganisms from finding their way to the space station, O'Neill said.
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In food, fermentation — the process by which enzymes from microorganisms break down carbohydrates — is both an ancient practice and a recent trend.
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Cardman's research includes microorganisms found in environments like caves or even deep sea sediments, and she has conducted several expeditions to Antarctica.
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And don't forget that crops often depend upon other species, such as pollinators that support reproduction or microorganisms that improve soil fertility.
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Your gut flora or microbiota—the collection of bacteria living in your digestive system—is home to tens of trillions of microorganisms.
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The animal waste in the lagoons undergoes anaerobic digestion, where microorganisms break down many of the substances into carbon dioxide and methane.
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Whether you live alone or with extended family, you're bound to come into contact with dangerous microorganisms at some point during the day.
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So we're gradually shifting towards an existence that creates a mismatch between our evolutionary past and co-evolved relationship with things like microorganisms.
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For terra preta, Matzusaka claims that one year is enough time because the microorganisms, fungi, and bacteria work intensively on the organic materials.
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Perhaps something like this happened on Venus, and the microorganisms have been hanging out in the clouds ever since its oceans boiled away.
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Its first batch includes companies that create organic dyes from microorganisms (Pili-Bio) and cleaners from carbon dioxide to reduce water waste (Tersus).
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Researchers have long studied what role these microorganisms play in human health, from digestion to detoxification to supporting and activating the immune system.
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Every time we send a rover to the Red Planet, our own microorganisms latch on to them and hitch a ride across space.
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Scientists are just starting to figure out how the microorganisms that live on and inside our body, called the microbiome, affect our health.
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While they would most likely be primitive microorganisms such as bacteria, it would still be proof of life outside of our own planet.
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Developed by Louis Pasteur in the 19th century, the technique kills most of the bacteria, so commercially processed milk contains basically no microorganisms.
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Some breweries buy beneficial bacteria to intentionally sour beer, and fewer still actually harvest wild microorganisms by exposing unfermented beer to the air.
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This is worrisome news for astronauts on long duration missions, who may be exposed to novel and dangerous strains of microorganisms over time.
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Put simply, it's what happens when organic materials – such as food waste – are broken down by microorganisms, producing biogas as a by-product.
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Reconstructing the classic '80s game with microorganisms was intended to raise awareness of their research, they say, but also has a practical benefit.
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"Life as we know it cannot exist without beneficial microorganisms," Jose Lopez, the lead author of the paper, said in a press release.
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Nonetheless, honey consumption can have other therapeutic benefits, including anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and prebiotic (promoting the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms) properties.
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This is because the process requires bacteria to feed on organic waste, and these living microorganisms need to be kept warm, explains Porter.
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Without treatment, an inflamed appendix can rupture in two to three days after symptoms develop and can spill dangerous microorganisms throughout the abdomen.
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But Ashton and her team, which studies ocean microorganisms, wanted to see what happens when you warm the actual Antarctic Ocean on site.
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Not the birds themselves, but the intricate structure of nature, before insects, microorganisms, and humans have had a chance to break it down.
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The difference with the water-logged plastic is that it had been coated with tiny ocean microorganisms in a process known as biofouling.
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If there were just a few microorganisms in the poop with the ability to survive the moon, they could have grown and spread.
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As we treat our illnesses with antibiotics, bacteria and viruses modify themselves to become hardened against them, creating new microorganisms known as superbugs.
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Each drop of seawater contains thousands of microorganisms, as well as bits of skin, mucus, and waste shed by passing fish and mammals.
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"What is new about our process is the intent to produce this fuel from microalgae, which are microorganisms," researcher Carlos Saez told Reuters.
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They could also have just the right balance of bacterial species, and interactions between those species, as well as other microorganisms, like viruses.
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"As I imagined it, this complex was placed there to research new life forms—tiny microorganisms quite different from our DNA structure," Zhestkov says.
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Living microorganisms with health benefits are known as probiotics, but Cani found that Akkermansia muciniphila was most effective when pasteurized, or killed through heat.
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Yet, he believes the stress on the yeast, triggered by the Wu-Tang sonic infusion, made the single-cell eukaryotic microorganisms increasingly metabolically active.
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The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as in farming).
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As sunlight hits the upper parts of the ocean where these microorganisms live, huge blooms can grow in seas and lakes around the world.
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During the 1980&aposs, microorganisms genetically engineered to degrade spilled oil were developed in laboratories, but draconian EPA regulations discouraged their testing and commercialization.
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These were produced within the same geological period as those described in the new study in Quebec, and were made by oxygen-producing microorganisms.
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Microorganisms tend to evolve (read: mutate) at an alarming rate compared to every living thing else in the world, and viruses even more so.
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He's certain that the world's topsoils contain incredible, practically inexhaustible reservoirs of undiscovered antibiotics, the chemical weapons bacteria use to fend off other microorganisms.
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This allows the ice to absorb more solar energy, thereby heating up and melting faster, which in turn allows the microorganisms to spread further.
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McKay also brought up another related risk: Right now we're pretty sure there's no life on Mars, no strange microorganisms lurking in the soil.
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If something has visible mold, off odors, the can is bulging or other similar signs, this spoilage could indicate the presence of dangerous microorganisms.
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The spacecraft would also hunt for life directly by profiling amino acids and carbon isotopes, which occur in specific patterns when microorganisms are present.
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Biome Makers, which applies DNA sequencing to enable winemakers to identify microorganisms in their soil, grapes and wines, closed on just over $2 million.
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In addition to looking cool, these "micromazes" make it easier to view and study microorganisms, which are usually bunched together in a Petri dish.
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It's a periphyton mat, she explains, a unique symbiosis of algae, bacteria, and other microorganisms that forms the base of the Everglades' food chain.
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She actually has a light-up dinosaur made of living microorganisms that turn into a glow-in-the-dark snow globe when shaken. COOL!
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Antimicrobial resistance happens when certain microorganisms change to due exposure to drugs, and eventually develop resistance to them, according to the World Health Organization.
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Gingko Bioworks developed a technology to make a variety of products ranging from perfumes and sweeteners to animal feed supplements - all thanks to microorganisms.
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Revolving around death and rebirth, the series will, "literally guide living microorganisms through minute spatial features inside the artifacts of the dead," Oxman says.
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Keep in mind that the larger the population of bacterial contaminants on the ball's surface, the greater the risk of transferring microorganisms to beer.
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But decades later, his ideas were credited with contributing to "germ theory" -- the currently accepted medical theory that many diseases are caused by microorganisms.
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He's saying there's a tiny chance that natural selection might have kicked in inside those jett bags, leading to the microorganisms evolving to survive.
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"We are familiar with oxygen breathing, but the microorganisms have multiple options," said Isabelle Daniel, a geobiologist at Université Claude Bernard Lyon in France.
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Anything that disrupts the balance of microorganisms, such as antibiotics, which can kill both "good" and "bad" bacteria, has the potential to cause disease.
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Unlike other forms of trash, such as food and paper, most synthetic plastics cannot be easily degraded by live microorganisms or through chemical processes.
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But, as scientists began to domesticate microorganisms in the laboratory, they noticed that not all bacteria responded to their efforts in the same way.
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Afforestt, a company based in India that operates globally, has developed an artificial soil formula that involves brewing a compost 'tea' filled with microorganisms.
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Microorganisms such as plankton consume the stripped down remnants of the foam and, in turn, allow them to infiltrate food webs in ever-increasing concentrations.
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So if you reduced the amount of free water, you would still have moisture in the food, but microorganisms would not be able to reproduce.
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Analysis of the microorganisms found within the waters of Lake Mercer could show how life might survive on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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A new paper published this week in Nature offers the first genetic analysis of hemimastigotes—a rare and poorly understood group of single-celled microorganisms.
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Illustration: Carl BuellModern filter-feeding baleen whales use comb-like structures in their mouths to scoop up large volumes of itsy-bitsy animals and microorganisms.
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Finally, some microorganisms on Earth, mostly bacteria, get swept up into our atmosphere, where they can stay alive at heights reaching 25 miles (41 km).
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A lot of these projects were looking at microorganisms, how they interact with their environment, but usually in the context of the ocean or lakes.
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In a study published today in Nature Communications, researchers in China identified the microorganisms found in six parts of the reproductive tracts of 110 women.
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Germs. Tap water can be safe enough to drink, but it's still filled with microorganisms that can attach to your lenses and infect your eyes.
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It can also program microorganisms to spew spider silk, make the scent of roses, glow in the dark and a whole bunch more crazy things.
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But the thought disgusted him, and instead he opened a kitchen drawer and grabbed an inoculating loop, an instrument used by microbiologists to sample microorganisms.
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Consider the toilet plume, an "invisible cloud" of "fecal bacteria and other microorganisms" that can be released into the air when a toilet is flushed.
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Three and a half centuries later, science journalist Ed Yong channels Leeuwenhoek's wonder at microorganisms in his lovely and insightful new book, I Contain Multitudes.
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Or they could create a line of microorganisms that could help humans generate some of their own amino acids — nutrients we usually get from food.
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In 250, Mao Zedong initiated a secret military project to discover new treatments for malaria, which is caused by mosquito-borne microorganisms known as Plasmodia.
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But the room still wasn't finished, so the David sat inside a crate for years, growing colonies of microorganisms like a huge piece of cheese.
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The microorganisms in Ecosynthesis were specifically inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, in which alien overlords look at the human species as simple lifeforms.
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Even the humid conditions in many swamps present a problem for human microbiome, which harbors more pesky microorganisms in moist conditions than in dry ones.
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Humans will probably always underappreciate the microorganisms that live inside us and all around us, but the truth is that we live in their world.
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In a discovery that sounds like the premise for a children's book, scientists have identified tiny habitats, created and once inhabited by microorganisms, inside gemstones.
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Scientist Vaclav Smil says something similar in Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities, his recently published account of humanity's reckless journey beyond the planet's ecological limits.
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Among myriad factors, sometimes that resistance can occur when antibiotics or other medicines are used unnecessarily, allowing for bacteria or other microorganisms to develop resistance.
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He was trying to map the genes of microorganisms, work that he would eventually pursue as a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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As our planet undergoes climate change, these frozen records can inform predictions about which microorganisms will survive, and what the resulting environment will look like.
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When the chemical fertilizers used in industrial agriculture or the manure from livestock wind up in the ocean they can fuel huge blooms of microorganisms.
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From a climate perspective, forests are vital because they're filled with vegetation, fungi, and microorganisms that draw carbon dioxide from the air and store it.
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And with that comes the humbling realization that the history of human life is not isolated, but rather a history of our interaction with microorganisms.
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Goats, like other plant eaters, have an organ called a rumen that is filled with microorganisms that help them break down grass into edible sugars.
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Other factors to consider include the types of microorganisms present (that is, human pathogens or harmless microorganisms), the human infectious dose of the pathogen required to contract the disease, the general health status of the people playing the game (healthy versus immunocompromised), and whether the ethanol concentration in the beer and contact time with the ball are sufficient for the alcohol to kill any bacteria present.
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It will be a proof of concept that scientists can design and implement genome-wide changes, tailoring microorganisms in major ways for further engineering and study.
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A team of NASA researchers is trying to recreate the environment on the space station to see exactly how humans impact what microorganisms colonize space habitats.
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Their bizarre structures are signs of the presence of ancient microorganisms, making them the oldest "microfossils" ever found, and the oldest record of life on Earth.
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"We know that exposure to certain microorganisms early in life stimulates development of the immune system and may protect against allergic diseases later," said Abou-Jaoude.
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The conference goes beyond the fashion industry and presents other biofabricated products, such as perfumes made from microorganisms, bacteria dyes, bone-tissue jewelry, and fungus furniture.
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Microorganisms are essential for healthy soil, while biochar helps soil to retain nutrients and can be used to address food security in areas of depleted soils.
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We also know of bacteria with light-absorbing properties; it's conceivable that massive conglomerations of these airborne microorganisms could explain the enigmatic dark patches on Venus.
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They work to inactivate the DNA of microorganisms like bacteria and viruses, and the lamps work most effectively from light ranges 250 nm to 280 nm.
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Soap and water won't kill all of the tiny microorganisms on or inside the condom, and it can only make the latex more prone to tear.
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This protein, found in an aquatic microbe called Vibrio vulnificus, is the building block of flagellum—the lash-like appendage that allows microorganisms to swim around.
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Specifically, opaline silica deposits featuring the clumpy nodules and tiny, finger-like structures seen on Mars tend to form alongside sticky mats of microorganisms, called biofilms.
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When carbon-rich soils are inundated, they quickly run out of oxygen, promoting the growth of microorganisms that respire CO2 and produce methane as a byproduct.
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For example, a bacterium could be taught to recognize, provide information, and even kill other microorganisms in its midst, or provide a record of genetic expression.
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Underneath, a fleshy mound rises, which could be a breast, shoulder, belly, or hill, replete with magnified images of what look like blood cells and microorganisms.
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And perhaps more important, as plants pull carbon from the air, their roots inject some of it into the soil, feeding microorganisms and fungi called mycorrhiza.
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What's more, it's likely that that same technique could be extended beyond bacteria to other microorganisms, according to the study, and even perhaps beyond living cells.
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This scientific process is called anaerobic digestion and includes a series of biological processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen.
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The scientists identified three different eco-systems and using an advanced biological method, which involves scanning samples for genetic material, have detected several microorganisms within these.
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This was when single-cell microorganisms, such as bacteria and protozoa, dominated the planet and possibly created a purple hue that could be seen from space.
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Examining the patterns in a shark's scales, Brennan discovered that the unique ribbed, diamond structure of the shark's scales discouraged microorganisms from settling on the surface.
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The man-made structures make it possible to guide the cells and microorganisms to diseased areas with things like magnetic fields, ultrasound, and light, she adds.
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His 'C-Mould' archive has 50 different kinds of microorganisms, each with their own color and idiosyncrasies, a sort of bacterial painter's palette, if you will.
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But the cleanup efforts have fallen short of what was promised, and it isn't clear how much raw sewage and dangerous microorganisms persist in the water.
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Peatland is boggy, waterlogged ground, loaded with layers of decomposing plants that can't get enough oxygen to support the microorganisms that would normally break them down.
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McFarland learned that she could let her body decompose in a "mushroom suit," which hastens the breakdown of a corpse using mushroom spores and other microorganisms.
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They are grown according to Korean natural farming techniques that encourage the growth of healthy microorganisms in the soil to eliminate the need for chemical applications.
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They did not find fossils of the microorganisms that may have left behind the graphite, a form of carbon, but said they may have been bacteria.
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Another group led by Hazel Barton, a microbiologist at the University of Akron, discovered microorganisms harboring antibiotic-resistance genes in the Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico.
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Humans tend to think of themselves as individuals, but their lives are profoundly shaped by the huge collections of microorganisms that live on and in them.
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Membrane filtration uses ultrafine porous materials to strain pollutants and microorganisms from water, whereas electrodialysis and capacitive deionization remove salt from brackish water using an electric current.
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Incredibly, microorganisms have also been shown capable of surviving re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, as witnessed by bacteria that survived the Space Shuttle Columbia crash in 2003.
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But even if dead microorganisms were discovered, or just their chemical traces, it would still represent direct evidence for the existence of life beyond our Solar System.
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" Explains lead researcher Mary Ellen Oesterle, EdD, PT, according to Science Daily, "We found considerable variation in the number of microorganisms between the different ball pit samples.
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Image: PNASCyanobacteria are super versatile and highly adaptive microorganisms, capable of finding a home in most environments, whether it be an arid desert or an aquatic landscape.
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The goal of the museum is to "display the invisible world of microorganisms to the general public," Jasper Buikx, a microbiologist at Micropia, told Motherboard via email.
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In a process similar to how baker's yeast produces CO2 to make bread rise and brewer's yeast produces alcohol, Geltor uses microorganisms to produce actual collagen strands.
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The experimental rover and drill, designed by Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and funded by NASA, successfully recovered microorganisms beneath the surface—specifically, a hardy, salt-resistant bacteria.
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The microorganisms are a yummy snack for the artemia salina, a type of tiny lobster that loves salt and turns the color of whatever it last ingested.
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We start with the premise, based on multiple scientific studies, that analyzing our gut microorganisms and biochemistry of our body offers a true picture of our health.
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These membrane-sealed sacs are then sent to a part of the cell called the lysosome, which is responsible for "digesting" old cell parts and other microorganisms.
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Though red tides are nearly an annual occurrence in the Sunshine State, many Floridians have dreaded the resurgence of the toxic microorganisms responsible for the red tide.
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Aunt Fannie's Glass and Window Vinegar Wash cuts through grease and grime, but it doesn't kill off all the helpful microorganisms with which we share our home.Pros:
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"Constipation may be an indication of changes in the microbiome," the mix of microorganisms in the gut, Dr. Kovesdy said, "but we can't prove any causal relationships."
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Life in space is a bit different for germs than it is on Earth—an environment with negligible gravity, enhanced exposure to radiation, and few competing microorganisms.
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"We are investigating the possibility of interplanetary migration of microorganisms," Kensei Kobayashi, the lead research on the Tanpopo mission, told me during the recent NASA astrobiology conference.
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This strategy, called an inactivated vaccine, is effective for some microorganisms (we have vaccines like this for polio and pertussis), but for malaria it didn't really work.
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In addition to competing, this year's open-water swimmers, rowers, sailors, triathletes, and others will face invisible foes, too: disease-causing microorganisms in Rio de Janeiro's waterways.
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At the same time, because dry conditions are often accompanied by warm temperatures, microorganisms in the soil, which are more productive when it's warm, release more CO₂.
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Torrone added that soap and water won't kill all of the microorganisms on or inside the condom and can also make the latex more prone to tear.
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" The FBI said PDI's hand sanitizer and wipes were necessary because they kill "54 different microorganisms within 1 minute so this disinfectant has both speed and power.
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When those microorganisms die, the bacteria decomposing them can use up all the oxygen in the area — which can lead to the creation of a dead zone.
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Scientific advances have made it possible for disease-causing microorganisms to be engineered or recreated in labs, or to escape labs when explosions and other accidents occur.
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They start from the understanding that healthy soil teems with more than a billion microorganisms per teaspoon and the behavior of those organisms facilitates hardy plant life.
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He would take antibiotics, then use bacterial samples from a donor (including saliva, skin cultures and feces) to recolonize his body with the new ecosystem of microorganisms.
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" He compared the proliferation of his key motif of the 1960s to microorganisms and declared, "My wish is that these bacteria will spread all over the world.
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Image Source/Getty Images Sink and Drain: Every day Because the kitchen sink has the second-highest concentration of microorganisms in the home, it should be cleaned daily.
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That's because it's becoming ever-clearer that all the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit our bodies, and particularly our gut, play an important role in our overall health.
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While introducing germs and microorganisms into a vagina can throw off pH levels, a healthy vagina is uniquely poised to seek and destroy the foreign bodies it encounters.
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There are two main strategies: The first is to decrease the overall biomass of microbes—that is, decrease the amount of bacteria, viruses, and other types of microorganisms.
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The Santa Monica, California-based company said that during recent tests conducted on the product, possible contaminations from microorganisms that could cause skin or eye infections were found.
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Scientists have discovered remains of microorganisms that likely thrived around 3.8 billion years ago near volcanic vents on the seafloor, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature.
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After various lengths of storage time, the researchers test the product to determine at what point the level of microorganisms present would likely be too high for safety.
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UVGI disinfects using UV light to kill or destroy microorganisms by targeting their nucleic acids or disrupting their DNA, which leaves them unable to perform their cellular functions.
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When these bacteria are fed sugar, they can synthesize color molecules through fermentation—just like microorganisms such as yeast that have been used to produce alcohol for centuries.
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Microorganisms, excrement: These are materials that are usually invisible, either because we literally can't see them, as in the case of bacteria, or because we choose not to.
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"There's a billion living microorganisms in that space, doing their thing, and any kind of energy injected in that space is going to be really impactful," he says.
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Such control ensures exact results and maintains consistency by preventing outside microorganisms from getting in and spoiling the beer, which can create a taste of Bandaids and diapers.
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U.S. based bioMASON, for instance, says it uses "microorganisms to grow cement," while in Scotland, one start-up wants to harness the power of recycling to produce bricks.
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While those plants are good at neutralizing sewage microorganisms that can make people sick or pollute waterways, they can miss chemicals that are linked with our changing lifestyles.
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Enter DIPLE, a Kickstarter that promises to supercharge your phone with up to 1,000 times magnification, allowing you to examine microorganisms, bacteria, and even your own blood cells.
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"If a newborn&aposs tongue is not cleaned, microorganisms begin to colonize within its grooves," says Preetika Chandna, a pediatric dentist and researcher who studies infant oral health.
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While a deforested area can be restored relatively quickly, with fire "you kill all the life in this place, even underground, the microorganisms inside the soil," he says.
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Activia does not have to make sure, for instance, that every carton of yogurt is equally chock-full of the microorganisms it claims to contain on its packaging.
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Soil, too, seems to harbor microorganisms that can ramp up a person's immune system if he or she spends time digging in the dirt at a young age.
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But the study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, is a good example of how we might be able to reprogram the body's microorganisms to precisely attack pathogens.
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According to professor Erik Andrew Johannessen of the school's department of micro- and nanosystem technology, the setup overcomes one of the big problems of studying microorganisms in Petri dishes.
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In the US, municipal drinking water is protected by the Safe Drinking Water Act, which compels utilities to monitor things like microorganisms and the disinfectants used to subdue them.
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Following more thorough lab tests, Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the suspected fake rice is not plastic, but rice contaminated with microorganisms.
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Your body already fights and usually wins the battle against germs and microorganisms that accompany the usual fecal contamination of a relatively well-sanitized area in a developed world.
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The team plans to study living microorganisms found in rock fractures inside the peak ring that are descendants of the tiny critters that colonized ground zero after the impact.
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"Older estimates were based on efforts that dramatically under-sampled the diversity of microorganisms,"said Jay T. Lennon, an associate professor of biology and co-author on the study.
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Methane mostly forms during the decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms at low temperatures, or by the breakdown of organic molecules at high temperatures deep beneath the Earth's surface.
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It's not really that shocking if you think about it: These sponges provide a warm and moist environment for microorganisms to grow, with nutrition coming from occasional food scraps.
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"For the first time, we can look at the bacteriophage, the viruses that impact our bacteria and microorganisms to know exactly what they are doing," says Dr. de Grey.
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"All kinds of organisms will use up the oxygen at the bottom of the lake—microorganisms, zooplankton, maybe even fish if present," he said in a follow-up email.
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It would have been before any multicellular organisms even evolved, when single-cell microorganisms dominated the planet and possibly created a purple hue that could be seen from space.
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DasSarma's research has focused on halophiles, microorganisms that still exist today in environments with a high concentration of salt, such as the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea.
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"Life on Earth started with relatively simple microorganisms which have the capacity to adapt and evolve to extreme conditions, which defined Earth's habitats in the ancient past," Lopez said.
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Light pollution poses a threat to 30% of vertebrates and more than 60% of invertebrates that are nocturnal, including plants, microorganisms and, most alarmingly, human health, the researchers add.
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Using these blocks, they could reliably control the temperature of the surface (where these microorganisms colonize) and about 3 millimeters of water above and around the blocks, Ashton said.
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"In addition to threatening 30 percent of vertebrates that are nocturnal and over 60 percent of invertebrates that are nocturnal, artificial light also affects plants and microorganisms," Hölker said.
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"North Korea has the scientists and facilities for producing biological products and microorganisms, and has the ability to produce traditional infectious biological warfare agents or toxins," the report said.
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And credit cards aren't necessarily any more sanitary: Microorganisms are able to transfer to credit cards in similar ways and point-of-sale terminals are used by multiple people.
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Among the challenges in elucidating the microbiome's role in health and disease is determining whether changes found in the microorganisms inhabiting various organs are a cause or an effect.
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And research related to the microbiome — the millions of types of microorganisms including bacteria that live in and on our bodies, especially in the gut — has also been booming.
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Some of the sugars it contains, although not digested by babies, support certain communities of gut microorganisms, which prevent disease-causing microbes from establishing a presence in the body.
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Believing interplanetary contamination to be "inevitable," the team argues that future Martian colonists should use microorganisms to reshape the Red Planet—a proposition deemed grossly premature by some experts.
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This year&aposs winning videos reveal how life looks beyond what the naked eye can see, giving rare glimpses into the bizarre and fascinating ways microorganisms transform and interact.
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We certainly have not charted the breadth of microorganisms that will inspire the invention of future drugs, nor fathomed the full complexity of the inner workings of human cells.
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The topics range from climate change to big data to microorganisms and their role in plant, animal, and human health, but they are equally dull, dated, and drill-like.
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If you believe that, you might assume that living in a city packed with people, pests, and the countless microorganisms they lug around would strengthen a person's immune function.
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Chimileski does not use false color to beautify the images: Aside from using dyes to stain the extracellular matrix in some cultures, he shows the natural coloration of the microorganisms.
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There is no doubt that washing our hands with liquid soap and water is effective in reducing the spread of infectious microorganisms, including those that are resistant to antimicrobial agents.
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They reported in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology in 2013 that a low-fiber diet changes the composition of bacteria in the colon, resulting in a significant increase in anaerobic microorganisms.
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The researchers also hope that biologists could use the filter to fish microorganisms out of a liquid, and then put the filter itself under a microscope, like a microscope slide.
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We tend to think of trees as individuals, but the roots of some species fuse together to allow the sharing of resources, such as water, carbon, mineral nutrients, and microorganisms.
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The discovery of 3.5 billion year old fossil evidence of microorganisms suggests life on Earth could have began on land in a hot spring, researchers say in a new study.
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What's more, bacteria in space have been observed to grow in a unique "column-and-canopy" structure not seen on Earth, suggesting that space provides a special environment for microorganisms.
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While some permafrost samples may have thawed out and refrozen over the past 41,000 years, syncryogenic samples are thought to have remained frozen, along with any microorganisms living inside them.
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"Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms," said Dr. Daniel Becker, a local pediatrician who works in poor neighborhoods.
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Neil Collins, the winemaker at Tablas Creek, talks about the soil being more alive, that it teems with more microorganisms, and how that vibrance finds its way into the bottle.
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But since we have yet to find any full-fledged microorganisms drifting through space, the presence of these organics begs the question: how would they have ended up on Earth?
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Researchers are trying to understand what governs gut microbial composition, in part because of increasing evidence that the trillions of microorganisms teeming in our guts influence health in myriad ways.
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Researchers at Aarhus University, in Denmark, are searching for special enzymes and microorganisms that the animals use to break down dry plant material, such as wood, crop residue and grass.
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No one factor is to blame entirely, but four main drivers are linked to the declines: habitat loss, pollution, pathogens (diseases and microorganisms) and non-native species, and climate change.
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The water that is already used in the kitchen and bathroom is filtered through the plants and microorganisms in the soil and is then reused to help run the toilets.
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These single-celled microorganisms evolved more than 3.5 billion years ago and many of them are also extremophiles, found in animals' guts, swamps, or in unthinkably hot and cold environments.
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According to its website, the suit has a built-in "biomix," made up of mushrooms and other microorganisms that help decompose the body, "neutralize toxins" and transfer nutrients to plant life.
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Participants make their own DNA — gene by gene — and then grow their designs into real applications by inserting them into microorganisms to develop different traits and characteristics provided by the genes.
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There are a lot of startups looking at your DNA these days but uBiome stands out as unique among them for testing the DNA of microorganisms found in your fecal matter.
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On its own, this bacteria isn't usually harmful, but its presence is an indicator of other contaminants, such as microorganisms that dwell in fecal matter, disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
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Scientists aren't entirely sure what causes it, but it may have something to do with the way the body protects the fetus against toxins and dangerous microorganisms in foods and beverages.
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For the last decade, he's been studying a collection of microorganisms—so-called "lactic acid bacteria," or LABs—that live inside the honeybee's crop, a special stomach devoted to nectar collection.
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"They didn't find any microbial growth on the lunar samples, and they didn't have any microorganisms that they at least initially attributed to any extraterrestrial source or lunar source," said Hayes.
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Image: Yu-Xian Yang, Lienchiang county government, TaiwanSatellite imagery taken over the past two decades shows that the toxic bioluminescent microorganisms responsible for China's sparkling blue seas are becoming increasingly abundant.
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Moreover, Mars is known to contain copious amounts of methane at the surface, pointing to the possible presence of methane-gobbling microorganisms beneath the Martian surface, according to the new paper.
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Now Pili's team of chemists, biologists, engineers, and designers is cultivating the "Pili microbe palette," a collection of microorganisms that have been engineered to produce pigments in a variety of colors.
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"Bio-hybrid delivery systems are promising because they combine the advantages of the biological components like cells and microorganisms with the properties of man-made micro- and nanostructures," Medina-Sánchez says.
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The babies that were swabbed had "microbiome," or complex communities of microorganisms that reside in the human body, closer to that of the babies born vaginally, even a month after birth.
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Emerging from the near-sterile environment of the uterus, babies make their way through the microorganisms that live their mothers' vaginas and anuses as they are squeezed through the birth canal.
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After getting my Ph.D. in microbiology, I obtained a postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on fungal genetics of plant pathogens, or the microorganisms that can cause disease.
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Natural gas is pumped through a fermenter, and the microorganisms, from naturally occurring microbes found in soil, metabolize the gas as their sole source of energy, producing a high-protein biomass.
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The gut microbiome, the roughly 10 trillion to 100 trillion bacteria and other microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, contributes to health by synthesizing vitamins, metabolizing drugs and fighting pathogens.
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Meanwhile, people interested in fostering a health-promoting array of gut microorganisms should consider shifting from a diet heavily based on meats, carbohydrates and processed foods to one that emphasizes plants.
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While the researchers don't think complex life forms like animals were likely on Mars when it could have hosted life, they believe microorganisms could have existed in Martian bodies of water.
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They bite, and their feces on the street may be a serious hazard, containing microorganisms that not only are pathogenic to humans, but in some cases are also resistant to antibiotics.
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Basaltic terrain can host a diverse range of microorganisms, leading scientists in Hawaii to focus on the bacteria and other organisms living there, and the factors that enable them to survive.
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During Wednesday's outing, Kate will view some of the museum's specimens and see DNA sequencing in action, done to identify the tiniest insects and microorganisms playing a part in the environment.
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Using a fluid-filled Pac-Man-style labyrinth measuring no more than one millimeter across, they've been letting loose a bunch of microorganisms and studying them as they chase each other down.
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There are about 100 trillion bacteria in our digestive system (some good, some bad), and scientists are still trying to figure out how this massive melange of microorganisms contributes to our health.
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It took samples from the screens in eight branches and found that they contained coliform bacteria, a group of microorganisms found in people's intestines as well as in soil and on plants.
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Shapiro says that you'd likely feel better after eliminating items like dairy and grains but that it would depend on your body and microbiome, the collection of microorganisms living in our bodies.
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A cursory look at these pieces would have you believe that they're made of wood and marble, but thanks to science and spores, they're actually formed from shrooms, agricultural waste, and microorganisms.
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PACE will make it possible to identify the types of phytoplankton in various parts of the ocean, expanding the model's ability to help us understand how the microorganisms affect atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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"On Earth, 90 percent of the methane is the result of bacterial activity—either bacteria living today or microorganisms that lived many hundreds of millions of years ago that died," explained Vago.
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It's not unheard-of for microorganisms to live in rocks — endoliths, as such creatures are called, have been found living encased within sandstone in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, among other places.
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A recent study suggests that salt concentrations in many U.S. lakes will fall outside the bounds necessary for healthy aquatic plants, animals and microorganisms -- and for good-tasting drinking water -- by 2050.
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Most early antibiotics were naturally occurring chemicals produced by microorganisms that lived in soil or on decaying fruit; the strain of penicillin used to protect wounded soldiers came from a moldy melon.
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"There are certain types of microorganisms that seem to proliferate in them," says Aaron Glatt, chair of medicine at South Nassau Communities Hospital and spokesperson for the Infectious Disease Society of America.
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That aqueduct will be shut down for several 10-week increments so crews can scrub out microorganisms that have created a layer of "biofilm," which inhibits the flow through the century-old tunnel.
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The authors of the new report warn that dangerous microorganisms on wheat or other ingredients in flour "can survive the drying process and remain viable in flour for months" in a dehydrated state.
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An ice core sample up to 26 feet (8 meters) in length will help the scientists age the lake and its contents, and show scientists how the lake's microorganisms are obtaining their nutrients.
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Advances in biological science over the past few decades, particularly in genetics, have started to open the way for new kinds of less harmful materials: biofabricated textiles made from living microorganisms or cells.
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According to Coeio, the suit has built-in mushrooms and other microorganisms that work together to do this, as well as neutralize toxins found in the body and transfer nutrients to plant life.
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On Tuesday, the FDA also advised consumers not to use products made by one of the companies, KratomNC, because of various microorganisms found in the products the FDA said could potentially cause illness.
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While the human body already plays host to trillions of microorganisms, including mites, fungi, and bacteria, keeping your pillowcases and other bedding clean (and practicing good hygiene) will help prevent them from proliferating.
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Wong covers topics like pH, the science of face washing, the difference between skin purging and breaking out, and what types of microorganisms cause acne, frequently reading scientific articles from peer-reviewed journals.
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For now, however, the Japanese researchers' experiment remains in the lab, but it provides the foundation for low-energy biological computers that harness the natural mechanisms of amoebas and other microorganisms to compute.
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Caribou is one of the leading startups pursuing commercial applications for CRISPR technology and is largely focused on cancer therapies with plans to expand into modifying the body's microorganisms to treat other diseases.
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"Even water that is safe to drink is not sterile and contains tiny microorganisms that can penetrate into your contact lens and attack the surface of your eye, potentially causing infection," she says.
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They demonstrated in 2013 that it responded to molecules secreted by intestinal microorganisms, and that signals from that response helped to direct the kidney's secretion of the hormone renin, which regulates blood pressure.
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All remaining food waste is sent to an anaerobic digestion plant that uses microorganisms to break down organic material and turn it into power, fertilizer and water, Borough Market said in a statement.
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Sensible legislation has been proposed, including S. 185, the Promise for Antibiotics and Therapeutics for Health Act (PATH) Act and H.R. 512, the Developing an Innovative Strategy for Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms (DISARM) Act.
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By poring over microorganisms they find in glacier-fed streams, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) hope to better understand how these creatures have adapted to their extreme environments.
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The immune system is also influenced by the microbiome, trillions of microorganisms that colonize our body (such as the gut flora) that can prime immune cells to identify and interact with tumor cells.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they found indirect evidence of life in the form of bits of graphite contained in sedimentary rocks from northern Labrador that they believe are remnants of primordial marine microorganisms.
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The researchers have yet to analyze this chocolate-colored beetle milk, but Dr. Steiger suspects that it supplies the larvae with gut microorganisms, antibodies, digestive enzymes and other must-haves for mulching cadavers.
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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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But as new research published this week in the science journal Astrobiology points out, there's another possibility: Some microorganisms may have retreated to the clouds, where environmental conditions are surprisingly stable and downright balmy.
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We often don't think about our environment as teeming with life, but the idea of a "microbiome" is just that—the collection of microorganisms inhabiting a particular environment, in a kind of mini-ecosystem.
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Some scientists are skeptical of tests that claim to provide insight into the microbiome, the community of microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, because they say the results aren't supported by scientific research.
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She is just 22015 years old, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and she's researching ways microorganisms can combat climate change and restore land in the northern Sahel region.
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It is not a reference to the crucial importance of the skin's invisible microbiome — the billions of unseeable microorganisms that live on its physical barrier — but it certainly could be, taken out of context.
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The scientists believe that the microorganisms are a group of prokaryotes -- single-celled organisms without nuclei inside their cells, whose DNA floats in their liquid center -- which are able to survive in extreme conditions.
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Within a few decades, we'll enter the …Read more ReadIn an effort to develop new drugs, scientists are searching far and wide for bacteria and other microorganisms that might be used to combat superbugs.
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Their research, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, found these organic archaeological remains (also known as organic carbon) will accelerate their decay as they become exposed to increasingly warmer climes and hungry microorganisms.
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It may be hard to fathom, but the human body is occupied by large collections of microorganisms, commonly referred to as our microbiome, that have evolved with us since the early days of man.
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It has a magical quality: Many people return year after year for their summer vacations, and on New Year's Eve people often take a dip in the lake, which lights up with bioluminescent microorganisms.
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The authors offered no specifics in terms of when the first microbes should be planted on Mars, or how long it'll take for the microorganisms to produce the desired effects—assuming it'll even work.
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Few scientists at the time thought it was possible to improve on antibiotics, which they viewed as a result of an evolutionary process that had equipped microorganisms with the ultimate chemical weapons to survive.
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Particularly, the 69 sexual positions illustrated in Devil in the Flesh reminds us that falling in love is like catching an entire river with all of its swimming life forms, including weeds and microorganisms.
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Titled "Before the Dawn," the film meditates on biology's origins, observing the otherworldly Hamelin Pool in Western Australia wherein the water's marine microorganisms strongly resemble the stromatolites found in fossils 3,500 million years old.
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A fecal transplant is a procedure in which a healthy person's stool is transplanted into the colon of someone who's sick, in order to repopulate it with a diverse array of microorganisms, Dr. Olesen says.
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"[Consumers] are more likely to contaminate the product in their kitchen than they are to remove any harmful microorganisms that had not already been removed by washing during processing," Dr. Harrison tells R29 via email.
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Additional Nature Made products are being recalled because "there was a process breakdown that doesn't allow us to rule out the presence of other microorganisms, such as yeast," according to an email from the company.
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" A 2013 study conducted on consumers who used expired makeup found that people commonly used items beyond the expiration date and researchers concluded that these "products have a high level of contamination with pathogenic microorganisms.
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The challenge of proving reliability is even more significant for marine energy because of unique environmental factors, such as saltwater corrosion, biofouling (degradation caused by microorganisms), and, in the case of tidal turbines, underwater operation.
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These comets could have introduced Earth to novel life-forms that evolved on other planets, including viruses, durable microorganisms like unearthly tardigrades or, as the new study suggests, even fertilized animal eggs from other worlds.
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They suggested a couple of potential reasons for this difference: Friction can help "dislodge microorganisms from the skin surface," and perhaps dryers leave bugs lingering in a way rubbing hands dry with paper towels doesn't.
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Ecotricity say that once the grass is sourced it is to be taken to an anaerobic digestion plant where microorganisms in an oxygen free environment break it down, producing green gas and a natural fertilizer.
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Their research, published July 11 in the journal Scientific Reports, found these organic archaeological remains (also known as organic carbon) will accelerate their decay as they become exposed to increasingly warmer climes and hungry microorganisms.
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The new 10-minute gameplay film shows off exactly that — you can flip hilariously around the landscape as a bear, grow as a series of weeds and even swim around as the tiniest of microorganisms.
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When you get a UTI, your body's immune system is trying to fight off microorganisms that have made their way into your in your urinary tract, and it usually can't do it alone, she says.
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Björk has performed in van Herpen's clothes, among them a dress, contoured with bulbous growths of reflective acrylic, that was part of a collection inspired by the forms of microorganisms that dwell on human skin.
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Image: NASA/RoscosmosAn extensive survey of bacteria and fungi on surfaces inside the International Space Station has revealed an astonishing number of microorganisms living among the astronauts—the health impacts of which aren't entirely clear.
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There is fiber, water, and dead cells from the body in there—such as red blood cells and cells from the intestinal lining—not to mention many of the microorganisms living in the gastrointestinal tract.
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"Using a fish tank as a greenhouse and a system to control the humidity and light, I made the goldilocks zone for moss and some microorganisms so life thrives in this 40mm world," Klawitter explains.
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One study from 2013 showed that both homemade masks and surgical masks "significantly reduced" the number of microorganisms expelled by participants, although the surgical mask was three times more effective in protecting the wearers themselves.
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That pumice is expected to drift with the current down to the Australian coast over the next seven to 10 months, they said, where scientist believe could have a positive affect on the microorganisms there.
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The premise behind probiotic claims is the true statement that the types of good bacteria that comprise our microbiomes—the zoo of microorganisms living inside our body—play an important role in maintaining our digestive systems.
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"Although we tried to be as broad as possible with the experiments regarding pressure, composition of medium and gases, temperature, microorganisms, inhibitors, [and so on], our study is no evidence for possible extraterrestrial life," said Rittmann.
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This suggests not only that what we eat and the microorganisms that live inside us are intimately linked, but that it is possible to change the makeup of our gut bacteria very rapidly based on diet.
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What's more, there's been an explosion recently in human research on the microbiome, the large mix of bacterial life that lives within us; it turns out we have more microorganisms in our bodies than human cells.
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According to a 2015 study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, more microorganisms exist in the transport vehicles than in the water's original source, thus transferring the organisms from truck to plane.
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By tracing the evolutionary history of animals with an appendix, the researchers were able to link the former digestive organ to its proposed role as a secondary immune organ and as a repository for valuable microorganisms.
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Researchers could use "building block" cells like these to construct organisms with capacities not found in nature, including bacteria that can consume plastic and toxic waste, and microorganisms that can function like medicines inside the body.
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"The United States has world-class drinking water standards for more than 90 contaminants, including microorganisms, disinfectants, disinfection byproducts, inorganic and organic chemicals, and radionuclides-providing Americans safe and healthy water to drink," the EPA said.
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They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.
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We often work with local health departments and health care facilities that are in the field interviewing patients and collecting specimens, including blood, sputum and stool, for lab testing, to confirm the presence of certain microorganisms.
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But many have also heard in recent years of the "hygiene hypothesis," which holds that some exposure to germs and microorganisms in early childhood is actually good for us because it helps develop the immune system.
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"Soap is really important, especially when you're talking about bodily fluids, because [the fluids] can create a biofilm"—a thin layer of bacteria—"on your toy and protect the microorganisms within mucus or semen," Reynolds said.
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But this company has shown it can "grow" bricks and masonry from sand without using a traditional heating-blasting-process, by infusing the sand with microorganisms that initiates a process like the one that creates coral.
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"Using something to kill the fungus is going to kill other fungi or microorganisms in the cave that will cause other chain reactions and problems that are far greater than what we started with," he said.
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"We note that the chances of survival of microorganisms within terrestrial meteorites impacting the Moon would be increased by the presence of even a tenuous lunar atmosphere because this would reduce the impact velocity," the study reads.
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Image: Tanaka S, Sagara H, KuniedaThese microorganisms would have to survive extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space, but it might be possible; Earth bacteria can survive in space for prolonged periods, as can tiny tardigrade animals.
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The researchers also learned that blowflies and houseflies are very similar in terms of their stomach contents, sharing over 50 percent of their microbiome—an unholy mixture of microorganisms that the flies pick up from their surroundings.
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This interest manifested further when Fisher was shown "agar plates"—Petri dishes that contain some type of growth medium (like agar, which is a jelly-like substance obtained from algae) used to culture microorganisms or small plants.
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The next NASA Mars rover, Mars 2020, is going to search for evidence of ancient life on Mars in Jezero crater, where a dried up lake and delta may have deposited carbonates and trapped remnants of microorganisms.
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Today, cultured riboflavin and other vitamins produced by engineered microorganisms make up the majority of B vitamins used to fortify foods (which is partly why foods often lose nutritional value when companies reformulate to go non-G.M.O.).
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But recent research from Dr. Miller's lab and others had indicated that some microorganisms, such as bacteria, could sneak past a muscle called the sphincter of Oddi, which separates the pancreas from the rest of the gut.
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Mississippi State University ecologist Brandon Barton, forensic entomologist Abby Jones, and environmental microbiologist Heather Jordan set up plots of land and take stock of their ecosystems: the nutrients and microorganisms in the soil, insects, vegetation, and more.
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Scientific and technological advancements have helped fight these diseases -- but the WHO report warns they can also provide the laboratory environments for new disease-causing microorganisms to be created, increasing the risk of a future global pandemic.
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But it's not over when you flip off the faucet: Drying your hands matters too, because damp skin provides a hospitable environment for microorganisms and, as a result, might increase the likelihood that you'll pass on pathogens.
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"Our microorganisms have a life span of around 10 days," explains Volker Erbe, technical division manager of Wupperverband, the entity that takes care of water management around the river Wupper and runs the Wuppertal wastewater treatment plant.
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