microbes

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He cites the 2024 finding on Mars by the Perseverance rover of “a biosignature of heavy-metal reduction by alien microbes, possibly the most incredible discovery of the century.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Researchers found that giving older mice back their own younger gut microbes produced striking effects throughout the body, especially in the liver.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

They also identified changes in bacterial pathways connected to polyamine production, adding more evidence that gut microbes may directly influence kidney health.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Coffee may modify what microbes do collectively, and what metabolites they use.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

Eventually, typhus microbes discovered that human body lice offered a much more efficient method of traveling directly between humans.

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