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Microbe in sentence

33 examples of Microbe in a sentence

Now, what you do is, you get inside the microbe, you change its metabolic pathways, and you end up with a living chemical factory.
All of human history has depended on this little microbe for the oxygen they breathe every day, no matter where or when they lived.
I'm going into the ground just the way I am, and there, I invite every microbe and detritus-er and decomposer to have their fill.
There's a new microbe, I just discovered it.
If I asked you to name a microbe that's living in your gut, many of you would probably say E. coli.
A hundred trillion means if you took a blade of grass and planted it for every microbe living in your gut, that could fill a million football fields.
Sorona is a DuPont process that uses a genetically engineered microbe to turn corn sugar into polyester.
You have a pneumonia, you take penicillin, you kill the microbe and you cure the disease.
And in these bustling streets of our guts, we see a constant influx of food, and every microbe has a job to do.
Wonderful as they are, I believe the time has come for us to complement these bulky electronic giants with what nature has already invented: the microbe, a single-celled organism that is itself a self-generating, self-replenishing, living machine.
The field of study that has enabled us to utilize the capabilities of the microbe is known as synthetic biology.
He called the agent he had found an "invisible microbe" and gave it the name "bacteriophage," which, literally translated, means "bacteria eater."
But the reality is, if you're starting with an invisible microbe, it's very difficult to get to a reliable drug.
But maybe the best news of all is: they are no longer an invisible microbe.
And in that context, the first thing we know for sure, is that we actually know how to kill every kind of microbe, every kind of virus, every kind of bacteria.
They use a soil microbe to transform loose aggregates, like sand or crushed stone, into a biofabricated, or biocement, brick.
And the way we do this is we get a piece of DNA that codes for an enzyme that we're interested in, we insert that into the microbe, and we let the microbe use its own machinery, its own wherewithal, to produce that enzyme for us.
It's actually connected to a suite of automated hardware and software that read in real time and feed back to a design team the growth conditions of the microbe.
You can take the most fascinating organisms in the world, like a microbe that literally breathes uranium, and another one that makes rocket fuel, mix them up with some ocean mud, put them underneath a microscope, and they're just little dots.
To ask a microbe that lives like that to grow in our petri dishes is to ask them to adapt to our frenetic, Sun-centric, fast way of living, and maybe they've got better things to do than that.
Eric did a great job of developing the charater of the microbe and making him seem "human".
Loved the music and the voice used for the microbe.
Anyone who has left the safe harbor of home and gone off to a lonely, frightening place by themselves, will readily identify with this forlorn microbe.
Moreover, as Venter and his colleagues acknowledge, if the team began with a different microbe, or grew it in a different environment, the set of necessary genes would be different.
Mexico’s current quandary is the flu, but it faces more important challenges than a mutating microbe.
Namely, the microbe increases the likelihood of its host rat being eaten by a cat, by reducing the rat’s natural fear of light (photophobia) and cat urine.
Nevertheless, some biologists believe that they are on the verge of creating a microbe in the laboratory.
If a new microbe is created in the lab, it will be because scientists have learned how to follow nature's recipe.
A simple comparison of the pace of the evolution of microbes and their multicellular hosts suggests a millionfold or billionfold advantage to the microbe.
One year in the life of a microbe, indeed, easily surpasses the ages it took for all mammals to evolve!