microbes
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Scientists have long known that dietary fiber contributes to these benefits because gut microbes help break it down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The later microbes could have colonized the body while it remained frozen in the glacier or during more than 30 years of modern conservation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that may offer a new way to target microbes associated with head and neck cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
He said it could also add to interest in protecting maerl beds, which were "already of the greatest importance to all of the other plants, animals and microbes in the ecological community that they support".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Given our proximity to the animals we love, we must be getting constantly bombarded by their microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
