bacteria
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So I got a small grant, bought a swab kit and spent a semester knocking on doors to ask classmates if I could sample the bacteria on their faces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The products on our bathroom shelves, marketed as clean, stripped away essential bacteria.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Certain bacteria produce methane as they break down organic material, but this only happens when phosphate, an essential nutrient, is in short supply.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
The Plymouth Marine Laboratory has been using equipment including satellites and drones to monitor the waters, testing levels of viruses and bacteria, and looking at the numbers of different species of algae.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
From bacteria to elephants—from red-eyed flies to blue-blooded princes—biological information flowed through living systems in a systematic, archetypal manner: DNA provided instructions to build RNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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