microbe

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Previous work has shown that the hardy microbe can withstand radiation and desiccation, making it a candidate for interplanetary survival.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 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

Without significant genetic manipulation, the microbe resists diverting its essential resources to produce something unfamiliar.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself.

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