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

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

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

This break led to clear shifts in the metabolites produced by gut microbes in regular coffee drinkers, setting them apart from non-coffee drinkers.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

It has been estimated that we probably have real knowledge of only a small proportion of the microbes of the earth, because most of them cannot be cultivated alone.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas