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To better understand these plant and microbe partnerships, the researchers examined root microbiomes from multiple crop species grown in different soil types.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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

One previous piece of research on Neanderthal DNA also showed that modern humans and Neanderthals shared an oral microbe - a type of bacteria found in our saliva.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

Typically, when researchers try to get a microbe to produce a foreign compound, it creates a major metabolic burden.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

One transformation involves a change of intermediate vector: when a microbe relying on some arthropod vector for transmission switches to a new host, the microbe may be forced to find a new arthropod as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Studying bacteria one species at a time can reveal direct effects, but the human gut is a crowded ecosystem in which microbes constantly interact.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Most of the released material consisted of proteins and carbohydrates that free-living deep ocean microbes can readily consume.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Marine snow is made up of tiny clumps of dead algae, microbes, and other organic material drifting through the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

According to the researchers, the study highlights how strongly diet influences the entire gut ecosystem, from parasites and microbes to the immune system itself.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz