• Bacteria and other microorganisms (microscopic plants and animals) in the soil break down ethion. (cdc.gov)
  • Bacteria and other microorganisms (microscopic plants and animals) in lakes and rivers can also break down dichlorvos. (cdc.gov)
  • Given the diversity of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, parasites) and the complex of biological phenomena that we seek to understand, data-driven research in microbiology requires researchers to collaborate and to share data. (sfu.ca)
  • Researchers have discovered a good deal of microorganisms that could degrade and/or adsorb OTA, including actinobacteria, bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeast. (frontiersin.org)
  • A large number of microorganisms with good OTA degradation and/or adsorption ability, as well as some OTA degradation enzymes isolated or cloned from microorganisms and animal pancreas, have great application prospects in food and feed industries. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our understanding that infectious diseases are caused by microbes - bacteria and other microorganisms - came about thanks to the research work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, who explained the nature of the infectious diseases and the connection that exists between them and the disease-causing bacteria and other microorganisms. (ncsm.gov.in)
  • This profound understanding opened research opportunities for scientists to advance medicine, which could help in the prevention and treatment of an important group of diseases that are caused by bacteria and other microorganisms. (ncsm.gov.in)
  • Nano-silver acting on cell membrane proteins can directly destroy bacterial cell membrane and oxygen metabolism enzyme (-SH), block bacteria and other microorganisms from the absorption of amino acids, uracil and other essential nutrients for growth, thus inhibiting their growth. (thisisdrugs.com)
  • This unique mechanism can kill most bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms. (thisisdrugs.com)
  • Like experiments at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, Unit 731 doctors and researchers studied the potential survival of soldiers on the battlefield. (listverse.com)
  • As an orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station (ISS) offers researchers around the world the unique opportunity to perform experiments in microgravity and under the rigors of the space environment. (mentalfloss.com)
  • The researchers used saccharin for subsequent experiments as this artificial sweetener showed the most pronounced effect on glucose levels in preliminary trials. (the-scientist.com)
  • The researchers are now planning experiments in animal models. (technologyreview.com)
  • In another study published in the same issue of PNAS, a team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology with contributions from Cekanaviciute and UCSF colleague Sergio Baranzini compared the gut microbiota of 34 monozygotic twin pairs discordant for MS. While they found no major differences in the overall human microbial composition, the researchers saw a significant increase in bacteria such as A. muciniphila. (genomeweb.com)
  • For example, the researchers found that at least one MS-associated bacteria could confuse the immune system into attacking myelin as well as the bacteria. (genomeweb.com)
  • Now, researchers have found evidence that bacteria living in the scent glands of hyenas help to produce the smells that the animals use to identify group members and tell when females are ready to mate. (bioedonline.org)
  • Instead, researchers are interested in the hundreds of tiny fruit flies living on the trees and the even tinier bacteria living inside the insects' guts. (the-scientist.com)
  • Consumption of kale, regardless of its maturity, increases the variety of gut bacteria, the researchers have discovered. (worldhealth.net)
  • In the laboratory , researchers have been able to produce bacteria, plants and animals with all kinds of novel characteristics. (newscientist.com)
  • To date this vaccine has been administered only to those who are routinely exposed to the bacterium (e.g., researchers). (faqs.org)
  • In many of these examples, rock probably formed as microbes (microscopic bacteria and other small organisms) precipitated calcite cement, which in turn bound sediments together and/or filled pore spaces. (answersingenesis.org)
  • And so Agapakis dropped pharmacology and joined a group of synthetic biologists at Harvard who were trying to design photosynthetic animal cells and engineer microbes to pump out hydrogen fuel - biofuels were an especially attractive area of research, Agapakis says, because oil and gas prices were so high at the time. (grist.org)
  • Lacking this bacteria might encourage the immune system to overreact to harmless microbes in people with MS, causing harmful inflammation. (genomeweb.com)
  • Goldszmid's team has shown in animal studies that having a community of microbes in the gut is important for the innate immune system's ability to defend the body against tumors. (cancer.gov)
  • In their animal experiments, Goldszmid's team identified several ways to boost gut microbes' anti-tumorigenic immune signals, including a simple shift to a high-fiber diet. (cancer.gov)
  • The hordes of microbes that inhabit every nook and cranny of every animal are not just passive hitchhikers: they actively shape their hosts' well-being and even behaviour. (bioedonline.org)
  • But experiments to determine which bacteria were present had been inconclusive, because the microbes had to be grown in culture, which is not possible with all bacteria. (bioedonline.org)
  • We developed an economical, novel, non-terminal and reusable rumen-fistulated animal model that permits in vivo evaluation of multiple STEC strains in the bovine rumen. (usda.gov)
  • Although most strains of E. coli are harmless and live in the intestines of healthy humans and animals, this strain produces a powerful poisonous chemical and can cause extreme illness. (bartleby.com)
  • Until the demise of the Soviet Union, its biological weapons development program actively developed strains of the bacterium that were resistant to antibiotics and vaccines. (faqs.org)
  • Following the initial remarkable success of antibiotics, the emergence and spread of human pathogenic bacteria resistant to antibiotics has become a major phenomenon in the past fifty years. (europa.eu)
  • The emergence and spread of human pathogenic bacteria resistant to antibiotics has become a major problem in the past fifty years. (europa.eu)
  • Some are actually crucial to a healthy intestinal tract because this bacterium assists with the production of Vitamin K2 and stops pathogenic bacteria from interacting and establishing inside the intestines (Gould, 2010). (bartleby.com)
  • Finally, although not as attenuated as DLDH-negative bacteria, pneumococci lacking RafK were significantly outcompeted by wild-type bacteria in colonization experiments of murine lung and nasopharynx, indicating a role for raffinose and stachyose transport in vivo. (lu.se)
  • In competitive infection experiments, the perR mutant was cleared from two animals at 24 h and from four of five animals by day 14, in sharp contrast to wild-type bacteria that persisted in the same five animals for 28 to 42 d. (harvard.edu)
  • The work package focusing on molecular studies generated new evidence about the changes effected by antibiotic therapy on commensal organisms or opportunistic pathogens in the oropharyngeal, nasal and gastro-intestinal flora and study AMR mechanisms and the dissemination of successful clones of fluoroquinolone-resistant, carbapenem-resistant or extended-spectrum beta-lactamase harboring Gram-negative bacteria, MRSA and fluoroquinolone-resistant viridans streptococci. (europa.eu)
  • Immunologist Eran Elinav and computational biologist Eran Segal , both of the Weizmann Institute, identified changes in the composition and function of the mouse gut microbiome after the animals consumed artificial sweeteners-changes similar to those previously linked to obesity and diabetes in humans, the authors noted. (the-scientist.com)
  • A previous study showed that sucralose can alter the rat gut microbiome-specifically, by decreasing beneficial bacteria-but this latest work pinpoints a microbe-mediated mechanism by. (the-scientist.com)
  • The team decided to perform fecal transplants on mice with an experimentally induced form of MS. They discovered that swapping the mice's microbiomes with those of MS patients caused the animals to lose key immune-regulatory cells and instead develop more severe neurodegeneration, indicating that the microbiome alone could affect the progression of MS. (genomeweb.com)
  • Although few organisms are as practical to study as fast-growing Drosophila , research on other species in the past decade or so has produced multiple reports of common phylogenetic patterns in animals and their microbial residents-a phenomenon known as phylosymbiosis-and scientists have documented various correlations between microbiome composition and host phenotypes. (the-scientist.com)
  • In many cases, these studies have revealed tantalizing clues of microbiome-driven evolution in animals, including humans, and in some cases, pointed to specific adaptations that likely owe their origin, at least in part, to bacteria in the digestive tract. (the-scientist.com)
  • Wang believes the weight effects in mice may in part be related to the vegetable's impact on the animals' "microbiome," or the community of bacteria in the gut. (worldhealth.net)
  • The microenvironment surrounding tumor tissues provides a favorable niche for bacteria to inhabit. (nature.com)
  • The immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors, in particular, creates a favorable niche for systemically administered bacteria to engraft and release therapeutic payloads. (nature.com)
  • In a paper published in the current issue of the Journal of Burn Care and Research , Supp showed that these skin cells, when grown in a test tube, could kill more of a specific kind of bacteria than standard skin cells. (technologyreview.com)
  • Description Escherichia Coli is one kind of bacteria that lives in the humans and animals' alimentary tracts, most often find in the intestines. (bartleby.com)
  • Here's how they do it: The mosquitoes being produced in this factory carry bacteria called Wolbachia that block them from transmitting dengue and other viruses, such as Zika , chikungunya and yellow fever , to humans. (gatesnotes.com)
  • Many viruses and bacteria have changed dramatically in the space of a human lifetime, from HIV adapting to humans to H5N1 bird flu . (newscientist.com)
  • Among the viruses that we study, Ebola remains a key focus because it continues to spill over from animal hosts to people, regularly sparking outbreaks where the virus spreads between people, killing many of those infected. (cdc.gov)
  • Immunity against viruses (and bacteria) has two principal components: innate and adaptive. (cdc.gov)
  • February 22, 2022 - Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) viruses have been detected in U.S. wild birds and commercial and domestic poultry, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspective Service (APHIS). (cdc.gov)
  • The proper handling and cooking of poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165ËšF kills bacteria and viruses, including HPAI A(H5N1) viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses and parasites, that cause disease in humans and animals may depend partially or entirely for their existence on other physical, chemical, or biological factors. (who.int)
  • They're too small for the eye to see, but these bacteria, yeast, and other microscopic creatures are in the soils that grow our crops, in the air around us, all over our skin, and inside our guts. (grist.org)
  • In addition, FRI experimenters subjected at least 56 mice to cruel experiments. (peta.org)
  • They repeatedly force-fed the mice bacteria, suffocated them, and dissected them. (peta.org)
  • Experimenters also injected mice with C. botulinum bacteria and waited for the animals to die from the toxin. (peta.org)
  • Mice fed a high-fat diet plus the 10 percent saccharin solution showed the same effect on glucose metabolism as animals given an even higher saccharin dose-comparable to the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) upper limit for safe human consumption. (the-scientist.com)
  • Four weeks of treatment with gut bacteria-depleting antibiotics reversed the glucose intolerance in mice that continued to receive saccharin. (the-scientist.com)
  • Transplantation of feces from non-antibiotic-treated mice that consumed saccharin- or glucose-containing water into germ-free mice within six days induced the same blood-sugar elevations in animals that were never themselves exposed to the sweeteners. (the-scientist.com)
  • This is the elegant and home run experiment that shows causality in mice," said Nagler. (the-scientist.com)
  • Plenty of mice, frogs, spiders, fish, and even tiny tardigrades (not to mention bacteria) have spent time off the planet. (discovermagazine.com)
  • In their experiment, the RML scientists made certain that numerous blocked fleas-in some cases as many as 13-fed repeatedly on the vaccinated mice to ensure that the rodents could withstand multiple bites by infected fleas. (scienceblog.com)
  • The experiment in mice involving intraperitoneal administration of dapsone could not be evaluated. (inchem.org)
  • The other two experiments in mice did not provide evidence of carcinogenicity [ref: 1]. (inchem.org)
  • The surface characteristics of various materials, as well as their chemical and organic origin, when suspended in water, can influence colonization by bacteria [5]. (who.int)
  • Botulinum toxin , or botulinum neurotoxin (commonly called botox ), is a highly potent neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Overall, this study proposes a new strategy for the bacteria-mediated delivery of therapeutic proteins to tumors. (nature.com)
  • By administration locally or systemically, the engineered bacteria target tumors where they reside, replicate, and continuously produce the payloads on site. (nature.com)
  • To address this limitation, we engineer therapeutic bacteria to be controlled by focused ultrasound, a form of energy that can be applied noninvasively to specific anatomical sites such as solid tumors. (nature.com)
  • This diagram illustrates how gut bacteria, depicted as different colored shapes in the bottom left-hand pink structure (the intestines) send signals (blue waves) to reprogram innate immune cells inside tumors (top right-hand side) and shape the anti-cancer immune microenvironment. (cancer.gov)
  • They identified distinct species of bacteria that were in higher concentrations in people with MS than in the general population. (genomeweb.com)
  • The experiments, however, only examined the impact of a single bacterial species at a time. (genomeweb.com)
  • Bacteria in scent glands give information about hosts' species, sex and reproductive state. (bioedonline.org)
  • These species were chosen because of their high prevalence in respective tick vectors or published reports suggestive of human or animal pathogenicity. (cdc.gov)
  • GROWING AND EXTERMINATING E. COLI INVESTIGATION AIM - The aim of the experiment is to determine the relative effectiveness of several anti-microbial substances on developing pathogens. (bartleby.com)
  • Following bloodstream clearance mediated by inflammation, bacteria are generally entrapped in the tumor vasculature. (nature.com)
  • Initial in vitro studies and animal experiments have shown that infecton localizes in high concentrations in abscesses caused by both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, but it does not localize to areas of sterile inflammation or abscesses with dead bacteria ( 10 ). (snmjournals.org)
  • T]hese animals have taught the scientists a tremendous amount more than could have been learned without them. (discovermagazine.com)
  • As a first step in creating such replacement skin, scientists in Cincinnati have engineered bacteria-resistant skin cells in the lab and are now testing them in animals. (technologyreview.com)
  • Read about how mutation affects genes and how scientists clone plants and animals. (hobbyengineering.com)
  • It has become clear that some gut bacteria can help the immune system keep tumor growth in check - and CCR scientists have now figured out one way bacteria do it. (cancer.gov)
  • He found that for 40 years, scientists had wondered whether smelly bacteria were involved in animals' chemical communication. (bioedonline.org)
  • Life Scientists examine the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of humans, animals, plants, insects, and other living organisms to better understand how living organisms function and interact with each other and the environment in which they live. (migrationexpert.com)
  • No complex animals or plants are composed of bacterial cells. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Gould, 2011) E. coli 0157 is a member of a large group of bacterial germs that inhibit the intestinal tract of humans and other warm - blooded animals. (bartleby.com)
  • It is a sign of the success of a bacterial transformation experiment. (bartleby.com)
  • Now, they have found that the structure of the bacterial communities varied depending on the scent profiles of the sour, musky-smelling 'pastes' that the animals left on grass stalks to communicate with members of their clan. (bioedonline.org)
  • Other studies performed with various infections in animals and humans have found that infecton is a promising agent with better specificity for bacterial infections than white blood cell (WBC) scans. (snmjournals.org)
  • Pigs are genetically related to animals such as hippopotamus and whales. (wikipedia.org)
  • Skin cells genetically engineered to be resistant to bacteria could reduce infections and improve chances of survival among burn victims. (technologyreview.com)
  • Here we describe the development of FUS-activated therapeutic bacteria in which a brief thermal stimulus activates sustained release of anti-cancer immunotherapy. (nature.com)
  • NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) - A pair of newly published studies has established a potential role for specific gut bacteria in the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), suggesting therapeutic targeting of the microbiota as a potential treatment for the disease. (genomeweb.com)
  • Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is rampant among bacteria that cause healthcare- and community-acquired infections, driving up costs and increasing the difficulty of therapeutic management. (europa.eu)
  • Nano-silver particles have super permeability and can quickly penetrate into the subcutaneous 2mm to sterilize, which has a good bactericidal effect on the deep tissue infection caused by common bacteria, stubborn bacteria, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi. (thisisdrugs.com)
  • And how cool would it be if we could deploy specially engineered bacteria to fight off their antibiotic-resistant brethren? (grist.org)
  • Also, SATURN had as mission to improve methodological standards and conduct research to better understand the impact of antibiotic use on acquisition, selection and transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in different environments, by combining state-of-the-art analyses of molecular, ecologic and individual patient-level data. (europa.eu)
  • Kevin Theis, a microbial ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, had been studying hyena scent communication for several years when, after he gave a talk on the subject, someone asked him what part the bacteria might play. (bioedonline.org)
  • Conclusion: These in-vitro experiments would help in understanding LPS-toxicity from airborne size-specific LPS particles that are of specific relevance to health care, farm and animal care workers. (cdc.gov)
  • The biological functions of UTX in PDA cell growth, migration, and invasion were determined using gain- and loss-of-function assays with both in vitro and in vivo animal models. (bvsalud.org)
  • In work reported in Cell , graduate student Khiem Lam and postdoctoral fellow Romina Araya, Ph.D., traced these differences to the absence of molecular signals produced by bacteria that activate an immune-stimulating pathway called STING. (cancer.gov)
  • Instead countless experiments, both planned and unplanned, show that organisms of all kinds evolve and adapt to changing conditions, providing the changes are not too abrupt. (newscientist.com)
  • Only in the past hundreds of millions of years have animals started to develop, and you can clearly see the different cycles of mass extinctions (often due to climate change) that are followed by life explosions (when many ecological niches open up to new organisms). (lu.se)
  • Multicellular life is experimenting, and a series of strange organisms emerge, including Dickinsonia and Charnia. (lu.se)
  • Although in zoos the Sumatran rhino has been observed wallowing less than 45 minutes a day, the study of wild animals found 80-300 minutes per day spent in wallows. (wikipedia.org)
  • Author affi liations: The Pennsylvania State University, University isolated from blood, the bacterium has also been found to Park, Pennsylvania, USA cause respiratory diseases ( 11 , 12 , 21 - 23 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Hookworms are found on feces, and humans and animals normally acquire them by stepping on contaminated soil. (listverse.com)
  • Parabacteroides distasonis , a bacteria found at lower than usual levels in MS patients, triggered an immune-regulatory response as well. (genomeweb.com)
  • Most genetic variation - natural experiments in evolution - is found in simple bacteria, yet they have barely changed over four billion years. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • There are many types of E. Coli bacteria and most of them are not harmful and can be found in the healthy intestines of people and animals. (bartleby.com)
  • The bacteria was reportedly found in animal manure in the New Orleans Zoo, and have been feeding happily on pages of the Times Picayune in laboratory experiments. (themarysue.com)
  • Then, the team added plates of food: control fly populations received standard food, while others got food laced with one of two bacteria commonly found in the insects' guts, Acetobacter and Lactobacillus . (the-scientist.com)
  • Cell-surface receptors in plants and animals are found within cells' plasma membrane where they enable a cell to receive, process, and transmit signals from its environment by binding to extracellular signaling molecules such as growth factors, hormones or neurotransmitters. (lu.se)
  • This isn't the first bacteria discovered that can produce butanol, nor the first biological process to be tapped for making fuel. (themarysue.com)
  • They experiment with biological virus and bacteria from tortured animals. (gomarcellusshale.com)
  • Chemical analogues and compounds with biological or physical characteristics similar to those of suspected carcinogens may also be considered, even in the absence of data on a possible carcinogenic effect in humans or experimental animals. (who.int)
  • However, such payloads can be harmful if released outside the tumor in healthy tissues where the bacteria also engraft in smaller numbers. (nature.com)
  • World Health Organization (WHO) estimates hypothesize that if 50 kg of 'weaponized' or highly virulent bacterium Francisella tularensis was dispersed in aerosol form over a large city, depending on weather and exposure patterns, there could be as many as 250,000 infections resulting in a projected 19,000 deaths. (faqs.org)
  • While these bird flu outbreaks are largely an animal health issue, CDC is working closely with USDA to monitor for potential human infections and taking other routine preparedness and prevention measures in anticipation of possible human infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Logan's bizarre experiment eventually ended and he took albendazole, an anti-worming drug, to get rid of the intestinal parasites. (listverse.com)
  • The FRI has conducted a spate of curiosity-driven animal experiments despite the tests' inapplicability to human health, the absence of any regulations requiring such tests, and the widespread availability of superior, non-animal research methods. (peta.org)
  • PETA-whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to experiment on"-opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. (peta.org)
  • Without animal testing in the early days of the human space program, the Soviet and American programs could have suffered great losses of human life. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Each one of us, in fact, is host to more bacteria than actual human cells. (grist.org)
  • IK-Ui:TRAwfas-the-code- name: plemental" and says CIA support "wil -for 149 human-behavior experiments that make. (cia.gov)
  • The vaccine had prior successes in rodents and non-human primates, but in those experiments, the animals received laboratory-grown plague bacteria and were artificially exposed to it by needle and syringe. (scienceblog.com)
  • Human beings and animals are inevitably threatened by OTA as a result. (frontiersin.org)
  • As VSPB was doing some immunological experiments with the Ebola virus, we came across a curious finding that led to the idea for a new pilot project as part of the recently launched CDC human genomics and public health initiative . (cdc.gov)
  • When combined with the right virological experiments, human genomic studies have the potential to show us the precise mechanisms involved in such interactions. (cdc.gov)
  • Laboratory experiments show that the less acidic the water is, the more rapidly ethion is broken down. (cdc.gov)
  • Gut bacteria promote anti-cancer immunity by activating a key innate immune signaling pathway. (cancer.gov)
  • Since then, this bacterium has been isolated to rapidly reduce B. holmesii numbers in mouse lungs. (cdc.gov)
  • 99m Tc-labeled ciprofloxacin (infecton) has been developed for detecting infectious foci, which localize in high concentrations in living bacteria. (snmjournals.org)
  • E. coli) BACKGROUND - E. coli is a food-borne bacterium that inhabits the bowels of warm blooded creatures such as humans and animals. (bartleby.com)
  • Sometimes their work involves some pretty unusual experiments. (mentalfloss.com)
  • A few minutes from the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia sits a small peach orchard that's home to some unusual experiments. (the-scientist.com)
  • Illustration of membrane-embedded plant cell-surface receptors (white cartoons) that establish communication with symbiotic bacteria via secreted carbohydrate signaling molecules. (lu.se)
  • Without blood vessels, bacteria can grow and cause infection, and may destroy the graft and open the wound once more," says Ioannis Yannas, a bioengineer and materials scientist at MIT who helped develop the first artificial-skin product. (technologyreview.com)
  • It is naturally produced in bacteria and displays a pore-forming activity that lyses mammalian erythrocytes 16 . (nature.com)
  • The plasmid that will be used to transform the bacteria in this experiment is pGal and occurs naturally in E. coli. (bartleby.com)
  • This agent combines the advantages of a 99m Tc label and the broad-spectrum bacteria-localizing capability of ciprofloxacin. (snmjournals.org)
  • With a broad spectrum of bactericidal effects, about 650 kinds of bacteria, and do not produce drug resistance. (thisisdrugs.com)
  • The RAJ-IVOC model system provides a convenient method to pre-screen multiple bacteria-RAJ interactions prior to in vivo experiments, thereby reducing animal usage. (usda.gov)
  • Gut-barrier disruption leads to translocation of dangerous intraluminal components, such as bacteria and their components, into the gut wall and, most importantly, exposes the immune system to them. (medscape.com)
  • The diversity of the bacteria is enough to potentially explain the origin of these signals," says Theis. (bioedonline.org)
  • Although he and his colleagues didn't dig into what the genetic variation meant for the flies' phenotypes, they did show that it mirrored the variation observed in wild Drosophila populations across geographic latitudes in North America-for instance, alleles associated with a Lactobacillus diet in the experiment are more frequent in populations living at higher latitudes, where these bacteria are more abundant. (the-scientist.com)
  • Handling an infected animal or carcass can produce a slow-growing ulcer at the point of initial contact and swollen lymph nodes. (faqs.org)
  • Zobell [7] reported that bacteria attached themselves to inert particles and hypothesized that adsorption was beneficial for the growth of bacteria. (who.int)
  • The UCSF-based team first examined whether components of these bacteria could regulate T lymphocyte-mediated adaptive immune responses. (genomeweb.com)
  • Bacteria that live in the digestive tracts of animals may influence the adaptive trajectories of their hosts. (the-scientist.com)
  • The breeding of plants and animals, or artificial selection , has produced an incredible range of forms in just a few thousand years, such as turning wolves into chihuahuas and great danes. (newscientist.com)
  • Successful LESA experiments can be achieved from a wide variety of surfaces including: animal whole body or organ sections, polymers, medical devices, bacteria grown on agar plates, and plant materials such as roots, leaves and peels. (epfl.ch)
  • Developing effective preharvest control methods that limit STEC in cattle requires better understanding of STEC interactions with the animal. (usda.gov)
  • Following intraperitoneal (IP) inoculation of cell culture suspensions of R. rickettsii, R. amblyommatis, R. bellii, or R. montanensis into guinea pigs, animals were monitored for signs of clinical illness for 13 days. (cdc.gov)
  • There are animals with a mixture of mammalian and reptilian features, such as echidnas , and there are fossils with a mixture of bird and reptilian features, such as the toothy archaeopteryx . (newscientist.com)
  • However, no animals have a mixture of mammalian and bird features. (newscientist.com)
  • In November 1983, the Centers for Disease Control tussis, has been reported sporadically as a cause of whoop- and Prevention (CDC) received a gram-negative bacterium ing cough-like symptoms. (cdc.gov)
  • There is sufficient evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity of chloroform. (who.int)
  • Once it was clear humans could survive the rigors of space travel, animals were used less as test-flight dummies. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The causative bacterium, Francisella tularensis is a Gram-negative bacterium that, even though it does not form a spore, can survive for protracted periods of time in environments such as cold water, moist hay, soil, and decomposing carcasses. (faqs.org)
  • With appropriate humidity and moisture, most bacteria survive longer than they would in less humid or dry areas. (who.int)
  • In 1843, Scottish physician James Braid coined the term hypnosis for a technique derived from animal magnetism to induce hypnotic trances. (amenclinics.com)
  • R torques are mucin degraders that induce an increase in other mucin-using bacteria, which can contribute to gut-barrier compromise. (medscape.com)
  • The team then shifted to the much more challenging task of investigating how these differences in gut bacteria could influence the immune system's attack on myelin in MS. (genomeweb.com)
  • The Colonel K.L. Cambell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, Ontario, Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • One such war-influenced experiment was in various dismemberments , particularly limb amputations, to study the effects of blood loss. (listverse.com)
  • Animals were fed contrasting maintenance (high fiber) and lactation (high energy-protein) diets to study dietary impacts. (usda.gov)
  • of a disease-causing : bacteria- as: they affect :animals and humans: The research design called for bacter- iologists to- study 'staphylococci bacteria. (cia.gov)
  • Using this technique, Theis and his colleagues last year published a study that identified more types of bacterium living in the hyenas' scent glands than the 15 previous studies of mammal scent glands combined. (bioedonline.org)
  • One of the most common and brutal experiments performed was vivisection. (listverse.com)
  • This bacterium can live in an environment with or without the presence of oxygen. (bartleby.com)
  • Bacteria that require oxygen-free conditions die. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary biologist Seth Rudman prepares to release populations of Drosophila melanogaster into specially constructed mesh cages for an evolution experiment. (the-scientist.com)