microbe

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Eating plant fed insects could also have introduced beneficial gut microbes that later supported digestion of vegetation.

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These conditions expanded flooded landscapes, which are ideal environments for microbes that produce methane.

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Aristilde and her team have spent years studying how minerals and soil microbes influence whether carbon remains trapped or is released back into the atmosphere.

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This enormous and constantly changing community of microorganisms is shaped by countless chemical exchanges, both among the microbes themselves and between microbes and the human body.

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This means they help the immune system distinguish between harmful threats and harmless targets, preventing unnecessary attacks on the body's own cells, helpful microbes, and everyday foods.

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