microbe
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In this study, survival means that a microbe remains alive for at least one Earth day.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
To better understand these plant and microbe partnerships, the researchers examined root microbiomes from multiple crop species grown in different soil types.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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
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
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Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found that certain gut microbes are associated with slower biological aging, while others are linked to faster aging.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Bifidobacterium adolescentis was among the microbes most strongly associated with slower biological aging.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
These bacteria produce natural substances that help them attack other microbes and use them as a source of food.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
As the barrier weakens, however, toxins and other products generated by gut microbes can travel to the liver.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Europeans may not have known about microbes, but they thoroughly understood infectious disease.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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