microbes
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Bradley Moore, an oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego, studies marine microbes and the chemicals they produce, including compounds that have potential applications in human medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Prif increased the amount of dietary protein that reached gut microbes, giving them more material to produce the beneficial phenols.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
At the same time, metabolites made exclusively by microbes, including indole-3-propionate and p-cresol sulfate, declined after antibiotic treatment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Scientists have long known that dietary fiber contributes to these benefits because gut microbes help break it down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Enormous efforts were made to build the Viking microbiology experiments and test them with a variety of microbes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
