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
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
The inner core of solid tumors is made up of dead cells and lacks oxygen, creating the perfect conditions for this microbe to multiply and spread.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
To explore this idea, the team cultured a large quantity of P. sanguinis for three days and then extracted the full mixture of metabolites produced by the microbe.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
What evolutionary benefit does a microbe derive from making us sick in bizarre ways, like giving us genital sores or diarrhea?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
To determine where microbes might survive, researchers first examined the unusual way sunlight reaches the lunar poles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
They selected organisms found in spaceflight settings as well as microbes commonly associated with humans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Those changes were accompanied by predictable shifts in gut microbes, providing evidence that the medications themselves may be responsible for at least some of the observed differences.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
ATP is the universal currency of energy — found in all organisms from microbes to man.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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