Sentence examples for microbial cells found from inspiring English sources

Biofilms are surface-bound communities of microbial cells found in oligotrophic environments and are strongly implicated in bacterial virulence [55,85].

Microbial cells found as part of a biofilm contribute to the contamination of the water bulk phase, possibly due to sloughing as a result of water shear.

After 48 h growth incubation, >40 % of microbial cells was found to survive and form colonies after UV treatment.

Luo et al. (2011) in the United States of America, in a study aimed at concurrent desalination and hydrogen generation using microbial electrolysis and desalination cells found that increased retention time increases desalination (Luo et al. 2011).

Werner et al. (2013) in Saudi Arabia, in a study with the aim of wastewater treatment, energy recovery and desalination using a forward osmosis membrane in an air cathode microbial osmotic fuel cell found that removal efficiency increases at 30 °C (Werner et al. 2013).

Numerous examples of immobilization of various microbial cells in alginate beads can be found in the literature, for example, the immobilization of Debaryomyces hansenii for xylitol production [ 11, 12] or of S. cerevisiae for ethanol production [ 13].

The right balance between removing the unwanted microbial cells and letting viruses pass has to be found.

After screening more than 100,000 compounds, the researchers found several potent LexA inhibitors that all but halt the ability of bacteria to mutate and also easily get inside microbial cells, a notoriously difficult challenge for would-be drugs.

The major factors affecting cake formation as well as the overall filtration resistance were found to be the hydrodynamic forces exerted on the depositing microbial cells.

In the recent years, researchers aimed to find alternative methods of dealing with infections with biofilm-embedded bacteria, knowing that adherent microbial cells exhibit high antibiotic resistance.

The growth kinetics of microbial cells were investigated prior to the investigation of intracellular reactions and rates within the cell; the unstructured substrate inhibition and Monod models were found valid for the wild-type and recombinant B. licheniformis, respectively.