They maintain a million or so kinds of microorganisms, many deadly, and are regulated by a uneven patchwork of local and international rules.
Since then, companies working on new devices aimed at detecting deadly chemicals, explosives and microorganisms have received a lot of attention.
Among potential cellular targets by drug-loaded nanoparticles, macrophages are considered because they play a central role in inflammation and they act as reservoirs for microorganisms that are involved with deadly infectious diseases.
Perhaps most deadly of all, nitrate fertilizer kills our living soils and microorganisms, decreasing their ability to sequester (through plant photosynthesis) excess CO2 in the soil.
This microorganism can easily grow under anaerobic conditions, producing the deadly toxin that causes botulism.
The epithelium is of great importance for the survival of the organism, since chemicals and/or microorganisms, if allowed to pass the epithelial barrier, may represent a deadly threat.
Compounding Monsanto's damage to the environment and climate, rampant Roundup use is literally killing the soil, destroying essential soil microorganisms, degrading the living soil's ability to capture and sequester CO2, and spreading deadly plant diseases.
Life! Tiny cells, microorganisms.
Jackson's primary concern was whether oil-eating microorganisms would surge in population, triggering in the water a condition of severe oxygen depletion known as hypoxia, which is potentially deadly for many creatures.
