microbe

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By analyzing its antibiotic resistance profile, they discovered that this ancient microbe may help scientists better understand how antibiotic resistance develops and spreads naturally.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

One previous piece of research on Neanderthal DNA also showed that modern humans and Neanderthals shared an oral microbe - a type of bacteria found in our saliva.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Among them is one unusual microbe that produces methane -- a gas more often associated with cows and landfills than humans.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

For a microbe, spread may be defined mathematically as the number of new victims infected per each original patient.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond