Sentence examples for hardy bacteria from inspiring English sources

The infection is easy to spread from person to person by way of mouth and nasal fluids, and the hardy bacteria can survive on surfaces and things like glasses.

The US space advocacy group the Planetary Society has used the Russian mission to carry its Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) that will investigate whether plant seeds, hardy bacteria and tough little creatures called tardigrades, or water-bears, can survive the extreme conditions of spaceflight and so support theories on how life might spread through the cosmos.

Its prototype, on earth, consists of an artificial lake with four layered ecosystems, ranging from a dark, airless bottom where hardy bacteria such as Clostridium can break down human faeces and other waste, to the sunny surface where algae and higher plants flourish.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A hardy bacteria common on Earth was surprisingly adaptive to Mars-like low pressure, cold and carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, a finding that has implications in the search for extraterrestrial life.

If a tiny soil worm could do it, why not a hardy bacterium from a distant world, hitching a ride on a space rock or, dare we think it, sent by an advanced civilization?

That charge is perhaps even more pertinent when it comes to a lesser known ailment, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, more commonly known as MAP.This hardy bacterium has been found in soil and water, and it boasts qualities a cockroach dreams about.

The biologists say their findings may broaden the search for life, or evidence of past life, on other planets and also show that an array of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought were hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria.

No worms in there to eat the memory and only the hardiest of bacteria, so putrefaction had been a slow business.

Misusing antibiotics can be dangerous, because some people have allergic reactions to them and abuse can foster hardier strains of bacteria.

But bacteria are hardy and will spring back to life when you thaw the fish.

Equally important, the Manchester outbreak gave scientists glimpses of how hardy and opportunistic anthrax bacteria can be.