From a single bacterium in the soil, millions could proliferate on any ant tissue left unprotected.
"If you accidentally add a single bacterium to a flask, it will be full in one day".
Once all the samples were in, Tal Danino, a postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering at M.I.T., synthesized the material into a single bacterium.
DuPont's process, developed in collaboration with Genencor, took biochemical pathways from three different micro-organisms and assembled them into a single bacterium.
A single bacterium, far too small to be seen with the naked eye, might make enough protein molecules for a thousand snow crystals.
Released into the air during birthing or miscarriages by infected goats, a single bacterium is enough to infect a human, causing symptoms much like flu, though more persistent.
Michelle Smith, an F.D.A. senior policy analyst, said that a single bacterium surviving in a kilogram of seed can be enough to contaminate a batch of sprouts because the way they are grown allows bacteria to spread.
Each microwell accommodates a single bacterium that was genetically engineered to respond to a specific analyte.
Additionally, it is an observed fact that a single bacterium may possess multiple putative proteins which code for GGD /E EF or EAL or both.
RO membranes have an enormous surface area that increases the chances of a single bacterium to reach a membrane surface and later colonize to form a biofilm (Saeed et al. 2000).
As an alternative, it is also possible that nanofilaments (such as bacterial pili or some other mobile devices) are used in respiration of the oil rather than requiring that a single bacterium be in constant contact with the surface [40].
