microbe
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This microbe produces a substance called propionate, which helps trigger changes inside intestinal cells that make them better prepared to regenerate following radiation damage.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
They managed to "tame" the microbe in the laboratory and make it fix N2 at temperatures above 90 °C.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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
Published in Cell Communication and Signaling, the study focuses on Fusobacterium nucleatum, a microbe previously connected to colorectal and other cancers.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The researchers focused on three of these microbes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
However, this approach depends on an important assumption: that intestinal microbes are responsible for producing most or all of the compounds researchers want to influence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
The other, published in Nature Metabolism in June, challenges the longstanding belief that many important chemical compounds circulating in the body originate exclusively from intestinal microbes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Levels of indole-3-propionate and p-cresol sulfate, which are produced exclusively by microbes, declined following antibiotic treatment.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Another bonanza was the development of world trade routes, which by Roman times effectively joined the populations of Europe, Asia, and North Africa into one giant breeding ground for microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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