Another is Zyvox, a totally new type of antibiotic for fighting microbes resistant to other medications.
Working with Pace, she realized she could marry her loves of microbes and caves.
They attack microbes in a unique way that makes it hard for resistance to develop.
Microbes are the oldest form of life on earth and vital to life as we know it.
Awareness of microbes that occupy 90% of the body can alert us before our abdomen hurts.
Yup, just like yogurt and cheese, microbes can also make our amino acid additives.
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BioDiscovery, which has developed microbes to enhance plant production and Unreal Foods, a candy company.
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These environments are super-hot, and exactly what kinds of microbes live in them is basically unknown.
The effort could result in "designer microbes" that produce biofuels such as ethanol, and hydrogen.
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Dr Henderson says that two familiar microbes, smallpox and anthrax, are the most formidable threats.
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Instead microbes use their remarkable biosynthetic capabilities to synthesize antibiotics and kill the competition.
The microbes grow in closed glass bioreactors and are fed waste CO2, sunlight, and nutrients.
By using bacteria, any energy used is low because the microbes do all the bio-remediation, he said.
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The microbes used in the granules are able to tolerate the highly alkaline environment of the concrete.
But the few microbes that are able to survive a drug assault mutate rapidly into resistant strains.
"These are microbes that can survive on the energy from the natural water-rock interactions, " he told BBC News.
These microbes are found just about everywhere--in the soil, at the bottom of the ocean, inside our bodies.
Just as promising was the presence of sulfates and sulfides, which some microbes consume as an energy source.
In the race pitting science against microbes, however, the spread of hep-C looks likely to outrun a cure.
In theory, disease could also spread if the animal microbes pass their drug-resistant genes to human bacterial strains.
He would sequence the DNA of hundreds of thousands of microbes and put the results in a database.
M. smithii harvests hydrogen molecules from neighboring microbes in the gut, which it then transforms into methane gas.
The intestinal tract is host to a number of microbes, mostly bacteria that are needed for good health.
Lab coats, scrub suits, uniforms, gowns, gloves and linens are all known to be breeding grounds for harmful microbes.
These are the seeding species, says Kozyrskyj, and lay the foundation for the next groups of microbes to come.
But any fossil evidence of the microbes themselves has long since disappeared: "They're good and cooked, " Professor Muelenbachs explained.
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If you were wondering if there is something particularly groovy about the microbes in the English Channel, there isn't.
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Gradually the microbes break down the waste, leaving behind carbon dioxide and water.
Engineers can use DNA readers to concoct designer microbes to grow future fuels.
As microbes traveled through the polymer-lined pipes and encountered the strong positive charge, the attractive forces pulled them apart.
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