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
Acting as couriers, they take up parcels of host bacterial DNA and deliver them to neighbouring bacteria.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
Scientists suspect that metformin may influence gut bacteria in ways that affect how the body processes glucose.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
The bacteria grew exponentially at first, as expected, but then paused for a while before resuming growth again.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Florida EOC Biology 1
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