microbes

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The new study indicates that microbes living in the fish intestine may also be essential participants in the process.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

The effort, backed by federal and state grants, helped draw BioVerde, which uses microbes to produce chemicals needed for rubber and plastic products.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Researchers suggest that hydrothermal lakes formed by asteroid impacts may have acted as isolated environments where oxygen producing microbes could thrive.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

The study adds to growing evidence that microbes found in fermented foods may do more than support food production and digestion.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.

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