microbe
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They managed to "tame" the microbe in the laboratory and make it fix N2 at temperatures above 90 °C.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The process of naming the microbe included consultation with Kymberly Oakley, the world's foremost Malgana language expert.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Like any pandemic, the Black Death was simultaneously a biological and a social event—shaped by both the innate characteristics of a microbe and such all-too-human factors as political systems, religious beliefs and public-health responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"Wheat gluten and casein are recognized as safe in a way a microbe is not, in a regulatory sense, so this is an easier way to protect public health," Hsiao said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
In that new environment, a microbe must evolve new ways to live and to propagate itself.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The US space agency announced last year that its Perseverance rover had found potential biosignatures, markings on rocks possibly made by ancient microbes.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Researchers using different extraction techniques produced fractions with different structures and different levels of utilization by gut microbes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
These plant derived substances can act as antioxidants and can also interact with gut microbes, potentially influencing metabolism and other biological processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Signals can travel between the gut and brain through immune activity, hormones, nerves, and chemical compounds produced by microbes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
In several instructive cases doctors or veterinarians have actually been able to observe microbes evolving those new ways.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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