Sentence examples for gaining nutrients from inspiring English sources

Comparing what enters with what leaves you have a budget whereby you can tell whether the whole system is losing or gaining nutrients.

"The better that cell gets at dividing faster than its neighbours and gaining nutrients, the more successful it will be as a cancer, and the more likely it will survive and grow". Healthy cell division is marked by control and restraint, but cancerous cell division is wild, uncontrolled proliferation.

"The microbes communicate with each other, they arrange into a dense layer and collaborate in gaining nutrients and light".

Therefore, educated predators make decisions to eat aposematic prey based on the trade-off between the benefits of gaining nutrients and energy with the costs of ingesting toxins (Barnett et al. 2007; Skelhorn & Rowe 2007, 2010).

Given that tumour cells can use phagocytosis and macropinocytosis to gain nutrients as they grow, understanding how this protein works in the Dictyostelium amoebae may help to inform future efforts to develop treatments for this human disease.

Many microbes that are intimately associated with animals have lost the ability to gain nutrients from sources other than their host and are unable to survive on their own.

In oral candidiosis, for example, co-infections by both fungi are common (Redding et al., 2002; Coco et al., 2008), and C. glabrata may exploit the tissue destruction caused by C. albicans to gain nutrients, and possibly even to access the bloodstream.

The beneficial effect provided by the bacterial community in this experiment may be attributed to a mutualism between the host and its microbes, which gain nutrients and substrate from the amphibian host.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04550.001 Many microorganisms live as parasites inside another living organism, and gain nutrients at their host's expense.

It gains the nutrients and water it needs by both photosynthesising and by sending specialised roots called haustoria deep into its host tree's vascular tissue.

Cats may enjoy the taste of milk, and can even stomach it in small servings, but they won't gain any nutrients they're not already getting from a regular, balanced diet.