Sentence examples for microbe in a from inspiring English sources

The test can theoretically detect a single microbe in a sample.

Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material – cellulose – at temperatures near the boiling point of water.

In a paper appearing June 13 in the journal Nature, the researchers report sequencing the genomes of every microbe in a teaspoon of soil – so-called metagenomic sequencing – and turning up hundreds of genes for complex and potentially useful molecules that would not have been found otherwise because the microbes cannot be grown in a petri dish.

With FISH technology, the number of a targeted microbe in a mixed culture can be counted.

The macrophage engulfs the microbe in a vacuole and targets it for destruction.

The higher percentage of a targeted microbe in a mixed culture, the higher activity of the mixed culture will be observed.

One application of primers is in sensors designed to quickly detect microbes in a biological attack.

In 1996, the agency held a press conference prematurely announcing the discovery of fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite.

Sometimes it's the color of the microbes in a petri dish, but smell, too, can be telling.

We not only have a lot in common with microbes, in a way that is only beginning to be understood, we are microbes.

We often conduct experiments that require watching what happens to microbes in a variety of conditions over time.