microbes
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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
But those strategies may need to be reconsidered if mammalian metabolism, rather than microbes, is responsible for much of what circulates in the body.
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
He said it could also add to interest in protecting maerl beds, which were "already of the greatest importance to all of the other plants, animals and microbes in the ecological community that they support".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Still other soil microbes perform various oxidations and reductions by which minerals such as iron, manganese, and sulfur are transformed and made available to plants.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
