"I'm not sure what's going on at a microbial level, but from the sniffer test, I can say it's working, " she says.
Some 1, 400 boxes of original paperwork were put into storage but an unknown number of papers have suffered a microbial infection, meaning they cannot be handled without wearing gloves and masks.
"We need to learn a good deal more about the mechanism by which a microbial population changed by gastric bypass exerts its effects, " said study author Dr Lee Kaplan, an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.
Microbial genetics is enabling a more precise definition of bacterial, viral and parasitic threats - and how they develop resistance to treatments.
Their method is unlikely to create a 21st century microbial gold rush as the technique is not cost-effective, one said.
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The newly discovered microbial carbon pump could provide a novel way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, should that ever be deemed necessary to combat climate change.
Researchers at the Oregon State University have developed a new kind of microbial fuel cell that produces electricity as it cleans water.
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Vents are typically inhabited by a well-developed microbial community.
It forms part of a wider Philips Design's Microbial Home project which imagines an "integrated cyclical ecosystem" in the home where traditional waste is recycled to address sustainability issues.
As more studies hint that the richness and diversity of the microbial community can be an important indicator of a newborn's health, taking stock of what's in the diaper may actually make sense.
If the protein really could be turned into a drug with both contraceptive and anti-microbial properties, the idea of which many experts are skeptical, it could have wide appeal.
It looked for life in the form of microbial life by looking at respiration products, by looking at how a microscopic form of life would ingest atmospheric gas and exhale gases.
The USSR began sending dogs into space in 1951, and a Russian mutt named Laika became the first (non-microbial) Earth-born animal to enter orbit on aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957.
We have ten times as many microbial cells in our body as human ones, and though they are tiny, that still means that a 200-pound man is carrying two to six pounds of microbes, mostly bacteria.
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She is also studying a group of children to see how early M. smithii buildup occurs, and how soon in development it starts to set up a pattern of weight gain that might then be interrupted by changing the composition of the gut microbial world.
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